I find the implication that a single find can "rewrite history" to be very much hype.
This is a bunch of statues and votive offerings of models of body parts. There is apparently no text, and if there were text we probably couldn't read it. This find has no hope of rewriting history.
I have hoped that "rewrites history" would be more literal.
There are however traces in the material composition that could be as good as a way description.
I actually have hoped that "rewrites history" would be more literal.
There are however traces in the material composition that could be as good as a fingerprint.
Things like that for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schöningen_spears
> The spears and the place of discovery revolutionized the picture of the cultural and social development of early humans. Previously, Middle Pleistocene hominins, whether Homo heidelbergensis or early Neanderthals, were regarded as simple beings without language who acquired meat by scavenging other carnivore kills or natural deaths. The spears and their correlated finds are evidence of complex technological skills and are the first direct evidence that these humans hunted their prey. The large and swift prey that the Schöningen humans butchered suggests that their technologies and hunting strategies were sophisticated, that they had complex social structures, and had developed some form of communication (language ability). The Schöningen humans therefore likely had cognitive skills such as anticipatory planning, thinking, and acting, some of which had only previously been attributed to modern humans.[46][47] In addition, the spears have played a major role in debates about the origins of throwing.