More than 40,000 years ago, people sculptured models of points, lines and cross-sections on singles and figures
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What if the first fruits of writing were not on clay tablets in Mesopotamia, but on small ivory figures carved 40,000 years ago? A statistical analysis has just thrown a paving stone into the pool of our certainties on the dawn of human communication.