But aren't they thought to have lacked the capacity for speech as we know it?
Yes, larynx is too high to allow proper vowel formation. I guess the people who think they couldn't talk never heard a Bantu speak in clicks, a Basque shepherd 'talk' to a friend on the next mountain with whistles, or seen anyone sign...
80 posted on 12/02/2003 4:54:59 PM PST by null and void
(Even sheep have their limits.)