Re: oral tradition

Jim Bell (70672.1241@compuserve.com)
06 Oct 95 10:27:21 EDT

Glenn wrote:

<<The transmission of information over any period of time depends upon how
the people remember and how important they believe the information is.>>

It also depends on the ability use language and symbols. Evidence for this
does not exist beyond 40,000 years ago or so. As the experts explain, there is
no such thing as a primitive language. It is an all-or-nothing event. That
event occurred recently in history.

Jim