British scientists said they had discovered the world's oldest password, dating back to the Stone Age. According to experts, on a suspension found earlier in the UK, they identified an alternating series of short and long stripes, which may represent a secret code.
According to Professor Peter Jordan of the Arctic Center of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, the pendant found in the excavation area of the Star Carr archaeological site in North Yorkshire, UK, most likely belonged to a shaman. The reason for this assumption was the discovery of 21 objects earlier, among which there are several ritual headdresses. This also leads scientists to the idea that for them the very place of excavation is a place for conducting rituals and ritual dances of ancient people from the Stone Age.
The found shaman's headdresses are made of red deer antlers and skulls. To date, scientists are actively exploring the pendant, noting that the meaning of the lines inscribed on it remains undeciphered. According to their assumptions, both the number of killed large animals and the number of ritual dances in honor of the capture of a deer while hunting could be marked on it. Also, according to Peter Jorjan, they can mean how many times the groups went hunting and other important moments of life in the Stone Age.
