A fresh study suggests that some of humanity’s earliest “geometric thinking” wasn’t scratched onto cave walls, but etched into ostrich eggshells used by Ice Age people in southern Africa. By measuring ...

A study of ancient ostrich eggshells reveals that early humans were capable of advanced geometric thinking, using precise patterns and intricate designs more than 60,000 years ago.

“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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More than 60,000 years ago, early humans in southern Africa were carving patterns onto ostrich eggshells—and new research shows these designs were far more sophisticated than previously believed. A ...

The paper, published recently in PLOS One, describes an investigation of 112 ostrich eggshell fragments dating back more than ...

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Archaeologists report that 60,000-year-old ostrich eggshell engravings reveal humanity’s earliest known use of geometry.

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