The First Grammar
60,000 years ago, human hands pressed geometry into an ostrich-egg vessel — grids, diamonds, parallel strokes following rules no one had yet written. A new study reveals these engravings weren't random doodles but a structured "visual grammar in embryo": the earliest evidence of abstract thought, the cognitive root of all art and symbolic thinking to come.
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Source: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/intricate-carvings-in-ostrich-eggshells-from-60000-year-ago/
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