{"id":25171,"date":"2026-02-23T20:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/02\/23\/writing-may-have-begun-40000-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:00:23","slug":"writing-may-have-begun-40000-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/02\/23\/writing-may-have-begun-40000-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing May Have Begun 40,000 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/writing-may-have-begun-40000-years-ago\/\" title=\"Writing May Have Begun 40,000 Years Ago\"><\/a>Ancient carvings once thought decorative may actually be early attempts to record information. Their statistical complexity matches that of proto-cuneiform, pushing the origins of writing-like systems back over 40,000 years. More than 40,000 years ago, early humans were already engraving marks onto tools, figurines, and other objects. A new study by linguist Christian Bentz of [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient carvings once thought decorative may actually be early attempts to record information. Their statistical complexity matches that of proto-cuneiform, pushing the origins of writing-like systems back over 40,000 years. More than 40,000 years ago, early humans were already engraving marks onto tools, figurines, and other objects. A new study by linguist Christian Bentz of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/02\/23\/writing-may-have-begun-40000-years-ago\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Writing May Have Begun 40,000 Years Ago&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}