The lines and dots which decorate some of our most famous cave paintings have finally been deciphered as the world s earliest calendar, at over 20,000 years old.
Stone Age dots, lines and Y-shaped marks might represent a type of proto-writing created by hunter-gatherers who lived in Europe at least 20,000 years ago. At least 20,000 years ago, humans living in Europe created striking cave paintings of.
Niaux Cave in France was used by some of the earliest Europeans to depict the animals in the area and have enabled scientists to identify those now extinct.