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I'm trying to come up with alternative ways to convey meaning as precise and detailed as to carve handaxes from bone without using spoken language, primitive or

I'm trying to come up with alternative ways to convey meaning as precise and detailed as to carve handaxes from bone without using spoken language, primitive or not. Maybe some mix of sign language, sound and pantomime?

mkl 6y ago
Hand axes would be easy to convey: demonstrate creation and use, repeatedly, and help learners do both. Homo Erectus made hand axes the same way for a million years, without much innovation, to the point that it's been hypothesised they were more like bird song or bird nests than cultural artefacts. See e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5066817/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5066817/