15,000 Year Old Words -- Annamaria Berenato

May 11, 2013, 07:11 PM

Did you know that researchers have found some words to be 15,000 years old? Mark Pagel led a study to determine the similarities and differences between Asian and European languages. He and his colleagues discovered that there are 23 words that someone from the Ice Age from 15,000 year ago could understand you if they heard you talking today.