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First writing may be 40,000 years earlier than thought | Patterns on mammoth tusks help to retell history of writing (www.bbc.com)
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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fascinating.

And for those of us who... well.
Are there Cliff's Notes?

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's a meme from 50k years ago, you had to be there.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

In a way that checks out, given that the book Sapiens proposed that the very earliest need and use for language involved the urge to gossip about others.

Let that sink in...

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

berrypicker as fuck