re: World’s oldest form of writing found in Germany, 30k years older than Sumerian Cuneiform

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The "Out of Africa" theory has been taking huge shots that poke holes in it the past several years.

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This has no impact on that theory, with the earliest estimates of human ancestors leaving Africa being around 2 million years ago.

30k years is a blink in that timespan. It's huge compared to humans in a societal setting (12k years or so), but not the totality of humanoid migration.

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So... not kangs and sheet?

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Cuneiform is the oldest writing we've found. It's not in Africa.

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This has no impact on that theory, with the earliest estimates of human ancestors leaving Africa being around 2 million years ago.

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No, a new hominid fossil discovery in Europe casts doubt on that.

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No, a new hominid fossil discovery in Europe casts doubt on that.

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If it's older, it hurts his argument even more, so that's fine with me.

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Neither is Egypt culturally, but that doesnt stop them.

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Cool, but I don’t know that I call that writing. That looks more like counting if anything (assuming it’s not just decorative), and I don’t know that we could call tick marks writing.

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My first thought, and there's this in the article:

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indicate early symbolic abstraction for information storage but fall short of encoding full language per archaeological consensus.

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There has been hundreds of other ancient civilizations over the millions of millions of years. Stuff that we will never find.

AND THIS IS HOW THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE STARTS