Ice Age ❄️ cave art 🎨 from 20k ya has marks for the breeding seasons of prey animals 🐎🐄🐘.

Dots or lines tally lunar 🌕 months, from Spring 🌱, and "Y" shows birth 👶:

:mastodance: ///Y

This was spotted by a hobbyist, Ben Bacon, who worked with academics 🎓 to confirm and publish 📝 the theory.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64162799

Open access article:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/an-upper-palaeolithic-protowriting-system-and-phenological-calendar/6F2AD8A705888F2226FE857840B4FE19

#CitizenScience #Paelontology #IceAgeHumans #HunterGatherers #CaveArt #Archaelogy #PaleolithicEurope #Paleolithic #StoneAge

RT @Jamie_Woodward_@twitter.com

Ice age children frolicked in 'giant sloth puddles' 11,000 years ago, New Mexico footprints reveal #IceAgeHumans https://www.livescience.com/ice-age-children-splash-sloth-footprints

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Jamie_Woodward_/status/1567575928053587969