Writing Was Invented for Accounting and Scrawled on Baboon Bones

History Unplugged Podcast by Scott Rank, PhD

Aug 6, 202654:26Society & Culture

A three-inch baboon bone bearing twenty-nine deliberate incisions was pulled from a South African mountain range in 1970. It is approximately 43,000 years old, and microscopic analysis shows the notches were made over ti...

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