- 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...
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reference to non-written works: to "oral literature" and "the
literature of
preliterate culture". A
value judgment definition of
literature considers it as consisting...
- Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of
human communication wherein knowledge, art,
ideas and
cultural material is received, preserved, and transmitted...
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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...
- 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...
- (Coptic: ϩⲉⲛⲥϩⲁⲓ̈ ⲛ̄ⲥⲁϩ ⲡⲣⲁⲛ︦ϣ︦).
Hieroglyphs may have
emerged from the
preliterate artistic traditions of Egypt. For example,
symbols on
Gerzean pottery...
- ****umed that Proto-Germanic
speakers living in
Germania were
members of
preliterate societies. The only pre-Roman
inscriptions that
could be interpreted...
- not
directly attested –
since Proto-Indo-European
speakers lived in
preliterate societies –
scholars of
comparative mythology have
reconstructed details...
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enforcement developed in
anarchic situations by
eighteenth century pirates,
preliterate tribesmen, and
Californian prison gangs.
These groups all
adapted different...
- such as
crowd psychology,
religious hysteria, and
ritual trances in
preliterate tribal cultures.
Hypnotherapy is a use of
hypnosis in psychotherapy....
