A Total Amateur May Have Just Rewritten Human History With Bombshell Discovery

Ben Bacon is "effectively a person off the street," but he and his academic co-authors think they've found the earliest writing in human history.

An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and Phenological Calendar | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core

An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and Phenological Calendar - Volume 33 Issue 3

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Amateur archaeologist uncovers ice age ‘writing’ system

‘Lunar calendar’ found in caves may predate equivalent record-keeping systems by at least 10,000 years

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