60,000-Year-Old “Highly Unusual” Etchings Could Point to Humanity’s Earliest Use of Geometric Design
Evidence of early human use of geometric concepts in prehistoric art has surfaced in Africa, pointing to complex patterns in ...
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60,000-year-old markings on ostrich egg shells reveal world’s oldest geometric grammar
Researchers have discovered and analyzed the world’s oldest geometric patterns on 60,000-year-old ostrich egg ...
The paper, published recently in PLOS One, describes an investigation of 112 ostrich eggshell fragments dating back more than ...
At several archaeological sites in southern Africa, hundreds of highly unusual fragments of ostrich eggs have been found.
“The results demonstrate that Homo sapiens during the late [Middle Stone Age] mastered precise, pre-planned patterns anchored in specific geometric affordances: orthogonality [meaning the use of right ...
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