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Do we have archeological records of this prior to development of language? Seems like a fairly complex tech to pass on without some fairly involved language?
by inter_netuser 5y ago
Do we have archeological records of this prior to development of language?
Seems like a fairly complex tech to pass on without some fairly involved language?
- maxlamb 5y agoIt is widely agreed that the development of language goes back at least 50k-150k years ago, so way before that time period: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language
- dylan604 5y agoJust a margin of error of 100k years. Not bad.
- phonypc 5y agoLanguage, or the beginnings of it, is probably older than bread. But bread in its simplest form is not complex at all, I feel like you could hypothetically teach it to an early hominid without language. Just pound something starchy into a paste, maybe add some water and work it into a dough and cook it on some rocks.
- inter_netuser 5y agoI've heard reports of orangutans learning how to fish with a spear by observing humans. I wonder sometimes if we could teach them to make bread or baked plantains or something, idk, and then have that habit passed on to their offspring. The sticking point could be fire, seems rather hard to make, and even worse - maintain, without all the convenient tools we have today.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> I've heard reports of orangutans learning how to fish with a spear by observing humans. They imitate the behavior, and you can easily find some pretty cool pictures of it. However, I'm not sure an orangutan has ever actually caught a fish that way.
- Mikeb85 5y agoWe have archaeological records of bread prior to written records (archaeologists found a 14k year old fragment of bread) but language itself likely developed long, long before writing.