{"id":375063,"date":"2010-02-26T13:26:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T18:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23438"},"modified":"2010-02-26T13:26:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T18:26:03","slug":"researchers-uncover-30000-year-old-written-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/375063","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Uncover 30,000-Year-Old Written Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23442\" title=\"cave\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/cave.jpg\" alt=\"cave\" width=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/cave-symbols-hint-at-30000-year-old-origins-of-written-communication\/article1477830\/\">Globe and Mail<\/a> reports on the discovery of what might be the earliest written language, comprised of lines and geometric shapes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A graphic code uncovered by researchers at the University of Victoria suggests that written communication may have started 30,000 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Compiling the cave signs of nearly 150 sites across Ice Age France, researchers found striking similarities that suggest human beings may have used a graphic language made up of simple lines and geometric shapes to communicate shortly after the first African civilizations arrived in Europe&#8230;suggesting that the &#8220;creative explosion&#8221; occurred tens of thousands of years earlier than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>26 signs illustrated in a consistent style were found across the sites using images from a digital archive. While the illustrations may be rudimentary &#8211; composed of circles, straight lines and triangles&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Globe and Mail reports on the discovery of what might be the earliest written language, comprised of lines and geometric shapes: A graphic code uncovered by researchers at the University of Victoria suggests that written communication may have started 30,000 years ago. Compiling the cave signs of nearly 150 sites across Ice Age France, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}