Still, the geometric engraving predates other examples by around 300,000 years, and the oldest Neanderthal shell tools are also much younger (about 110,000 years old).

Shell engraving has 'rewritten human history': 540,000-year-old mollusc reveals early man was smarter than we thought. Mollusc, found in Java, is between 430,000 and 540,000-years old ...

Oldest ever engraving discovered on 500,000-year-old shell. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 12 / 141203142453.htm ...

The shell was the first engraving excavated from an Indonesian riverbank by Eugene Dubois, a 19th century Dutch scientist keen on the theory of human evolution.

This earliest known engraving has been hiding in plain sight for more than 100 years. The fossilized shell was collected in Java in 1891 by Dutch physician and anthropologist Eugene Dubois.

A zigzag engraving on a mussel's shell may transform scientific understanding of what has long been considered a defining human capacity: artistic creativity. Until now, the earliest evidence of ...

Zig-zag patterns found on a fossilised shell in Indonesia may be the earliest engraving by a human ancestor, a study has claimed. The engraving is at least 430,000 years old, meaning it was done ...

A shell etched by Homo erectus is by far the oldest engraving ever found, challenging what we know about the origin of art and complex human thought. THE artist – if she or he can be called that ...

The discovery of the tortoise shell, discussed by academics in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), gives more evidence as to the religious practices of humans from the ...

Zig-zag patterns found on a fossilised shell in Indonesia may be the earliest engraving by a human ancestor, a study has claimed. The engraving is at least 430,000 years old, meaning it was done ...

Zig-zag patterns on a fossilised shell in Indonesia may be the earliest known engravings by a human ancestor, scientists say.