“A London furniture conservator has been credited with a crucial discovery that has helped understand why #IceAge hunter-gatherers drew #CavePaintings ” 20,000 years ago:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64162799

The study ( #OpenAccess ): https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774322000415

#archaeology #prehistory #HistoryOfWriting #writing #communication #PublicHumanities

Londoner solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery

Furniture conservator Ben Bacon spent hours of his own time decoding cave paintings.

BBC News
@SJLahey so this is the first writing of mankind?
@astridbeckers Depending on your definition of ‘writing’, it would seem so.