- Prehistory, also
called pre-literary history, is the
period of
human history between the
first known use of
stone tools by
hominins c. 3.3 million years...
- Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of
human communication in
which knowledge, art,
ideas and
culture are received, preserved, and
transmitted orally...
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Baltic and
Slavic heroic poems—is
performance poetry with
roots in a
preliterate oral tradition. It has been
speculated that some
features that distinguish...
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reference to non-written works: to "oral literature" and "the
literature of
preliterate culture".[citation needed] Etymologically, the term
derives from Latin...
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authorities aside from the
authorities knowing who they are. Many
remain preliterate and, at the
national or
international level, the
names of
tribes and...
- and success.
Satire is
found not only in
written literary forms. In
preliterate cultures it
manifests itself in
ritual and folk forms, as well as in...
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defined as a
state of
organized lethal aggression between autonomous preliterate communities. Some
scientists argue that
humans have a predisposition...
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Udege alphabets are the
alphabets used to
write the
Udege language.
During its existence, it
functioned on
different graphic bases and was
repeatedly reformed...
- ****umed that Proto-Germanic
speakers living in
Germania were
members of
preliterate societies. The only pre-Roman
inscriptions that
could be interpreted...
- (Coptic: ϩⲉⲛⲥϩⲁⲓ̈ ⲛ̄ⲥⲁϩ ⲡⲣⲁⲛ︦ϣ︦).
Hieroglyphs may have
emerged from the
preliterate artistic traditions of Egypt. For example,
symbols on
Gerzean pottery...
