They have founds ruins that are more advanced then this that date back up to 32,000 years ago. And for them to assume that 6,000 years ago is before the written word is stupid. It would be better to state that this was during a time when people had forgotten how to write in the area of the discovery.
Macro-Etymology: Paleosigns [writing 20,000 years ago?]
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