The ‘severed hand’ revealing how Stone Age Brits spoke to each other
New archaeological research may help reveal what language prehistoric Britons and some other western Europeans spoke long before any other languages were introduced.
Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed an ancient inscription which may give give an idea of what that prehistoric language may have been like.
The inscription – which appears to have been written in an early form of Western Europe’s oldest surviving language, - opens up the possibility of working out the potential linguistic status not only of ancient Spain, but also of other parts of prehistoric Western Europe - including and . That’s because genetic studies over the past decade suggest that southern and Atlantic Europe (including Spain and Britain) were colonised by the same wave of Middle-East-originating Neolithic migrants.
