{"id":10661,"date":"2026-08-30T23:34:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=10661"},"modified":"2026-08-30T23:34:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:34:53","slug":"the-prehistory-of-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/08\/30\/the-prehistory-of-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prehistory of Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I often speak of ‘the Magdalenian 14,000 years ago’ as a touchstone for a time when everybody was a hunter-gatherer. <\/p>\n

It is worth remembering that most people were, far later into the process of us domesticating ourselves. <\/p>\n

And, that the Magda shorthand only refers to a material culture from one place:<\/p>\n

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15k year old Magdalenian Writing | Ice Age Europe <\/a><\/p>\n

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And that there is a ‘Magdalenian’ element much closer to home, in many senses of the word.<\/p>\n

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The Peopling Of the Americas \u2014 Were People Really In The New World 30,000 Years Ago? <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I often speak of ‘the Magdalenian 14,000 years ago’ as a touchstone for a time when everybody was a hunter-gatherer. It is worth remembering that most people were, far later into the process of us domesticating ourselves. And, that the Magda shorthand only refers to a material culture from one place: 15k year old Magdalenian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10664,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10661\/revisions\/10664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}