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I don't think slavery made sense for nomadic people. Also, 'slave' is a quite advanced abstract concept for a time when humans could barely speak with eachother

I don't think slavery made sense for nomadic people. Also, 'slave' is a quite advanced abstract concept for a time when humans could barely speak with eachother.

biorach 2y ago
> a time when humans could barely speak with eachother. That's a pretty wild claim
- rafram 2y ago
  We don’t know anything about Neanderthal language, or even whether they had something we would consider language.
  - dyauspitr 2y ago
    We’re talking about the Homo sapiens here since they would be doing the enslaving.
PlattypusRex 2y ago
I'm confused by this, humans already had well-developed and complex language well before we started moving out of Africa into Europe.
- underlipton 2y ago
  Relatively high divergence of language across a relatively small geographic area? How often, exactly, are you interacting with people outside your family group? Outside your local group of family groups? Even factoring in nomadism.
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