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16 March 2026 The Future is the Product of the Past

The Adorant figurine from Geißenklösterle Cave, approximately 40,000 years old, consists of a small ivory plate bearing an anthropomorphic figure and multiple sequences of notches and dots. The application of these marks suggests a notational system, most notably in the rows of dots on the back of the plate. Credit: Landesmuseum Württemberg / Hendrik Zwietasch, CC BY 4.0

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More than 40,000 years ago—long before the first cities of Mesopotamia—early humans were carving mysterious sequences of lines, dots, crosses,...

An artist's reconstruction shows how a Neanderthal could hold a stone artifact with an adhesive handle. Daniela Greiner

Neanderthals used glue to make stone tools 40,000 years ago, a new study suggests “Earliest evidence of a multi-component adhesive in Europe”

22 February 2024

More than 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals in what is now France used a multi-component adhesive to make handles for stone...