preliterate

These tools first become present in preliterate people, which generally happen to be children before the age of seven.

It has its roots in the preliterate cultures of my own era.

In a preliterate world, he had signed a contract.

Being preliterate, and having no other form of contract, the People put great weight on oaths.

The only emotions the preliterate people found hard to distinguish between were fear and surprise.

In preliterate societies, these forms of poetry were composed for, and sometimes during, performance.

"I think you have to look at religion as a crucial part of identity in many preliterate societies," she said.

How did one explain that to an iron-age warrior in a preliterate World?

His books have run counter to the once widespread notion of peaceful preliterate cultures.

Similarly, archaeological evidence indicates the development of astronomical knowledge in preliterate societies.

Preliterate cultures, fearing death, often saw magical significance in the vital parts of others.

Oak trees were cult objects all over preliterate Europe.

The latter two are particularly important to the fast-growing category of preschool, preliterate users.

Yet forty-nine names after half a year-even in this preliterate culture, that would be asking much.

The first epics were products of preliterate societies and oral poetic traditions.

"Anyway, it's an anthology of poetry from preliterate societies.

Preliterate beginners have had nothing between the sounds they remember and the sounds they make.

Animist religions are common among preliterate societies, many of which still exist in the 21st century.

Hieroglyphs emerged from the preliterate artistic traditions of Egypt.

There was ample precedent for the wisdom of leaving a preliterate culture in strict isolation, so the expedition withdrew.

The style of music played with it "is believed to be the most sophisticated method of composition yet found among preliterate peoples."

"I studied preliterate music in college, and back then they didn't have a concept of music as an aesthetic pleasure.

Many were dull and trite, but a few had the barbaric grandeur found in the best of preliterate narrative everywhere.

Ani parroted it back at him in preliterate fashion, then rolled away to see what could be done.

Storytellers are welcome everywhere in a preliterate society, and literacy wasn't very widespread in those days.