A furniture maker hit upon the meaning of the markings and teamed up with academics to decipher them.
Three lines placed within an engraved salmon at Pindal cave in Spain from about 17,000 years ago
The initial discovery that the markings related to animal life-cycles was made by furniture conservator Ben Bacon.Their findings have now been published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal. The so-called "proto-writing" system the team uncovered pre-dates others thought to have emerged during the Near Eastern Neolithic by at least 10,000 years.
Using the birth cycles of equivalent animals today as a reference, the team worked out that the number of marks were a record, by lunar month, of when the animals were breeding.Four dots alongside a red ochre drawing of wild cattle in La Pasiega cave, Spain, from about 23,000 years ago "I reached out to friends and senior university academics, whose expertise was critical to proving my theory.
Prof Pettitt said: "The results show that Ice Age hunter-gatherers were the first to use a systematic calendar and marks to record information about major ecological events within that calendar."
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