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The origin of some of the words we use today go back much further than scientists once thought, suggesting an Ice Age-era proto-language that spawned many of the world’s contemporary linguistic groups, according to a new study by a group of U.K.-based scientists
Study: ‘Fossil’ Words Are Older Than We Thought

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/05/07/182040665/study-fossil-words-are-older-than-we-thought