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Pre-history in general.
I'd like to know the extent of advanced cognition, planning and civilization building without written language, perhaps even without spoken language. Was Chomsky right? Did the capacities for language come into place long before the actual externalization of it?
I wonder if the modern emphasis on regurgitating linear sequences of words has actually weakened some of our mental complexity.
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