Mon. 01/09 - Amateur Discovery May Rewrite Human History
A cave art discovery that could put the development of writing back thousands of years. Plus, one US state taking concrete steps against misinformation. And Benoit Blanc isn’t just playing Among Us, now he’s in it.
Links:
Amateur archaeologist helps crack Ice Age cave art code (BBC News)
An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and Phenological Calendar (Cambridge Archaeological Journal)
A Total Amateur May Have Just Rewritten Human History With Bombshell Discovery (Vice)
The Tower of Babel, Episode One (Literature and History)
New Jersey becomes first state to mandate K-12 students learn…
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