Our brains are able to understand and process very complex abstract concepts and we can communicate those to each other.
Oral tradition is almost an unavoidable byproduct of that, and while writing it down is certainly useful, it's clearly the case that humans were archiving and disseminating information orally for a long time before we invented writing.
Our brains are able to understand and process very complex abstract concepts and we can communicate those to each other.
Oral tradition is almost an unavoidable byproduct of that, and while writing it down is certainly useful, it's clearly the case that humans were archiving and disseminating information orally for a long time before we invented writing.