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 Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 7:07 pm
A few months ago, my World History teacher joked about caveman grunting in order to communicate or not. Whether that was a joke or not wasn't the case. What did occur was a thought that hit me: "Did caveman really grunt in order to talk?" I mean, think about it. Humans had evolved enough to have vocal cords, a jaw, and some brain capacity to store dozen, if not thousands, of words. So why not?
So, what do you guys think? Do you think cavemen were capable of language or not? Please, share your opinions. 3nodding
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:09 am
I think those days were more about body language than communication per say. But ive not looked into the communication, im more interested in the PAINFULLY gradual change from then to now.
Sometimes i look at the city around me and sit there in wonder how we ever made it to this point XD
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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 7:01 pm
I forgot where I heard or read it, but (as far as I know), cavemen used to communicate through yawns- signaling being "inactive" to "active" and back.
Or, maybe I hallucinated that- I don't know, but it can explain why people yawn when they see someone else yawn.
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Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 10:55 am
I think it's quite possible that very early cavemen grunted to communicate. Well, sounds that are similar to grunts. I think during human history we must have had to grunt at some point to get different sounds.
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 8:58 pm
Well what about the clicking sounds in Africa. If they can click, I think that tcavemen did grunt to try to convey their body language meanings, make thing clearer, warn each other, etc. It's certainly possibly. o_O
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Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 10:21 am
If they were "humans", why would they not be able to talk like we do, albiet it would be a much less complex language? I mean they would have the same vocal structures, no? I think they could use some sort of similar language, that possibly incorperated grunts... hmmm.
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Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:54 pm
That depends. What do you mean by cavemen? Do you mean early Homo sapiens? Do you mean Neadertals? Or do you mean something earlier?
Early Homo sapiens, yes, they could speak.
Neandertals, it's hard to say. Analysis of their skeletons indicates that they may have been able to speak, but their voices were probably much higher pitched than humans'.
I'm not sure about grunting per se, though.
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 5:28 am
Kalathma I forgot where I heard or read it, but (as far as I know), cavemen used to communicate through yawns- signaling being "inactive" to "active" and back. Or, maybe I hallucinated that- I don't know, but it can explain why people yawn when they see someone else yawn. Yawning when someone else yawns is a mirror reflex and I've heard that's it just a side-effect of the very good mirror reflex of vomiting when someone else vomits, because the food you all just shared could be bad. On topic, some say that language was what made the distinction between humans and their cousins. Language was humans' weapon.
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