preliterate

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This is not to say that there isn’t anything valuable to be found in the oral histories of preliterate societies, or in prehistoric cave paintings and archaeological artifacts.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Myths themselves commonly embody the religious beliefs of ancient or preliterate peoples, but Philip Ball suggests that we are still generating them.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2021

In the meantime, however, cultural anthropologists and human rights organisations abhor the inevitable implication that preliterate people live in chronic violence.

From The Guardian • Mar. 12, 2019

The same gestures can be identified as prideful by 4-year-old children, and by people in preliterate societies throughout the world.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2015

It is difficult to prove that preliterate people were motivated by faith rather than economic necessity.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari