Bison in mammoth ivory from
Rouffignac, about 13,000 B.P.

Table of Contents

17-The Oldest Language

Oldest surviving language in the world - From woman to woman and from man to man... - How to climb a philogenetic tree - The age of Eve - Paleolithic roots - Looking in Saudi Arabia - Watch out! Opportunists are entering Europe! - Cromagnons really like ivory! - How to touch a Cromagnon today - Disaster at Last Glacial Maximum - A handful of survivors - Let’s talk an Aryan language now - Crossing the Atlantic before Columbus - The way Asterix’s ancestors traveled.