In a paper published in PNAS, they reveal not only that these ancient carvings were applied in an intentional, systematic ...
Researchers use mini plasma explosions to encode the equivalent of two million books into a coaster-sized device. The method ...
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40,000-year-old Stone Age symbols may have paved the way for writing, long before Mesopotamia
Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...
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End of data decay? Microsoft’s ‘glass plates’ can store data for 10,000 years
Researchers at Microsoft have developed a method to store massive amounts of digital information ...
More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...
Ancient carvings once thought decorative may actually be early attempts to record information. Their statistical complexity matches that of proto-cuneiform, pushing the origins of writing-like systems ...
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