Earliest Known Stone Tools Planted the Seeds of Communication and Language

Popular Archaeology ^ | Tuesday, January 13, 2015 | UC Berkeley Press Release

[eartrumpet]

We had stone age tribes a few hundred years ago, too. But things changed.

[Defiant]

It does help if you can say "Yer not doin' it right!"

That's why they invented women!

[TigersEye]

And that’s when man invented cursing ... which brings us back to the origins of language. ;^)

[moovova]

I wish I had a time machine. Talk about reality TV.

[P.O.E.]

It does help if you can say "Yer not doin' it right!"

Probably led to the invention of beer so they had something to drink while they stood around and watched.

[TigersEye]

Which led to beer maidens ... so tell me again how much you hate us slackers. ;^)

[Unam Sanctam]

The experiment didn’t say that the technology couldn’t be passed on without language, just that language was more efficient. I would think that was an obvious conclusion, but it doesn’t tell us what really happened during the 700,000 years the technology was used, i.e., whether language was used or not.

[SunkenCiv]

I wholeheartedly agree, but I also see their point.