Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...

Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a new analysis.

The origins of writing aren’t set in stone. The ancient cave peoples weren’t as illiterate as portrayed in popular media.

German discovery of Stone Age art may reveal a precursor to writing ...

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 ...

A new study has revealed that mysterious signs carved onto Paleolithic artifacts up to 40,000 years ago match the information density of the world's earliest known writing system — pushing the deep ...

An exciting and unique find from over 5,000 years ago was uncovered during the construction of a railroad. Archaeologists have discovered evidence of a stone-paved cellar dating back to the Stone Age ...

In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable Neolithic discoveries The Ness of Brodgar—roughly, “headland of the bridge farm” in ...