Humans could have been ‘writing’ 40,000 years earlier than anyone thought

Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Stone Age humans were engraving complex, meaningful symbol systems onto ...
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Inclusion Defines USD Theatre’s Godspell

For some audience members, the most powerful part of USD Theatre’s production of Godspell wasn’t a single song or scene, it was the accessibility. From a sensory-friendly matinee to live ASL ...

Sign language interpreters at music concerts: ASL rock stars (Enable: The Disability Podcast)

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Symbols found carved into 40,000-year-old artifacts may be precursor to writing

Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a new analysis.
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Improving End-to-End Sign Language Translation With Adaptive Video Representation Enhanced Transformer

Abstract: The aim of end-to-end sign language translation (SLT) is to interpret continuous sign language (SL) video sequences into coherent natural language sentences without any intermediary ...
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40,000-year-old signs show humans were recording information long before writing

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...
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Mysterious marks on 40,000-year-old Ice Age figurines may actually be the earliest precursor to writing

Deep in a cave in southwestern Germany, a Stone Age artist carved a tiny mammoth from a piece of tusk. They then covered it with a deliberate sequence of crosses and dots. Created 40,000 years ago by ...

40,000-year-old markings may be the roots of script

Despite the structural parallels to protocuneiform, the researchers caution that the Ice Age markings are not akin to later scripts that encode speech, and they do not attempt to read the signs. Still ...

40,000-year-old German artifacts may display written language precursor

A small object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany in 1979 - crafted roughly 40,000 years ago by some of the earliest people to establish a distinct culture in Europe - bears ...
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Signs on Stone Age objects: Precursor to written language dates back 40,000 years

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis by linguist Christian Bentz at Saarland University and archaeologist Ewa ...

These mysterious Stone Age symbols from 40,000 years ago could be writing’s earliest predecessors

“The findings suggest the Stone Age hunter-gatherers developed a system of symbols with the same information density as statistically comparable to the earliest tablets from ancient Mesopotamia, which ...

40,000-year-old Stone Age symbols may have paved the way for writing, long before Mesopotamia

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...