NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Ben Bacon, a London-based furniture conservator, about decoding a 20,000-year-old writing system. Amateur archaeologist deciphers 20,000-year-old cave writing | WUNC ...

The lines, dots, zig-zags and semi-circles appear to indicate prehistoric man, as long ago as 30 to 40,000 years ago, may have been trying to communicate through symbols rather than pictures.

Lines, dots and other symbols painted in caves during the last Ice Age may be the earliest example of proto writing – symbols that communicate a small amount of information like an emoji.

Cave writing. Published 17 March 2010. ... The article on Stone Age symbols brings to mind a question I first asked myself years ago when I saw cave art in northern Spain; ...

Cave Art Symbols May Be Earliest Written Proto-Language, But Claim Faces Skepticism ... as well as transforming our understanding of the origins of writing.

FORT PAYNE, Ala. — Archaeologists and Cherokee scholars have finally interpreted Cherokee tribal inscriptions written in an Alabama cave hundreds of years ago.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Ben Bacon, a London-based furniture conservator, about decoding a 20,000-year-old writing system.