Question 3 — How did humans communicate before writing was invented - Questions at the end of the chapter - Chapter 4 - Early Humans and Beginning of Civilisation

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How did humans communicate before writing was invented?

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They used symbolic communication - signs and marks that carried meaning:

  • Symbolic engravings on bones and shells, made with a tool called a burin
  • Paintings on cave and rock-shelter walls
  • Body pigments and beads of stone, bone and shell
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