preliterate

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

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

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

One reason I learned to read was so that I could understand “hard books” like “Little Women,” which was read aloud to me as a preliterate child.

How can we ever hope to wrest the answers to those questions from Africa’s preliterate past, lacking the written evidence that teaches us about the spread of the Roman Empire?