I want to tackle this somewhat, because it annoys the hell out of me. So I've been hearing white supremacists have started being smug about Aurignacian peoples in now southern Germany developing protocuneiform around 43-34ka; the paper for that discovery is here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520385123 #History #Anthropology (1/12)
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I beleive "ka" means "thousands of years ago," never seen it abbreviated like that. Is that a common abbreviation? (Was I incorrect?)