Highly recommend reading @fusaroli.eurosky.social detailed thread on the paper: bsky.app/profile/fusa...
Dr Izzy Wisher
What function did ~100k-year-old engravings from Blombos Cave & Diepkloof serve? Decoration, identity marking, proto-writing? osf.io/preprints/ps... uses transmission chains + cognitive experiments to find out & help answering one of the hardest questions in cognitive archaeology. long thread! 1/