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A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...

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These include symbols depicting a building ... there is no obvious causal relationship that would link the one with the other ...

Making the jump from using symbols to writing is considered a major development in human cognitive abilities. Tracing how and ...

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Anthropologists have spent decades documenting a mysterious collection of symbols etched into the Peruvian desert, depicting everything from human decapitation and domesticated animals to ...

But the origins of proto-cuneiform’s emergence have been murky, and many of its symbols remain undeciphered. Researchers conducting a careful analysis of proto-cuneiform symbols were surprised ...