Cave Art Made By Ice Age Hunters Were To Chart Animal Life Cycles

The significance of Ice Age drawings was decoded and as a result, evidence of early writing that predates prior estimates by 14,000 years

Archaeologists have known for some time that the series of lines, dots, and other markings seen on cave walls and transportable items from the last Ice Age were storing some kind of information, but they have not yet determined what that information was specifically. The new study¹ shows that at least 20,000 years ago, Ice Age hunter-gatherers were recor…