First Peoples: Africa

After seeing the documentary called, “First Peoples: Africa” we can see that as a species we are still like our ancient ancestors from 200,000 years ago. Through this film we can our ancestors use creativity to make stone tools. However, the weird thing is that any visual recorded language hasn’t been found amongst our ancestor until a few thousand years ago even though they did communicate in ways. When I think about what could have played a factor in this lag between humans’ developing a spoken language between themselves and a written language I think of two possible solutions. These are that there was never a need for a written language and conflict that they faced never forced their brains to develop a written language as a solution.
The only thing that was important to these hunter gatherers was obtaining food through any means necessary. Mainly done through hunting animals and foraging for edible plants. This would be repeated daily so that they could obtain food to survive. Since they were hunter gatherers there wasn’t a reliable way of obtaining their food so they wouldn’t have a surplus. Instead of being able to rely on having a surplus, our ancestors would have had to devote almost all their time into finding food every day. Thus, leaving no “free time” in their lives to develop a form of written language because if he couldn’t find food he would die or be left behind by his group. Our ancient ancestors also didn’t form civilizations or have trade so there wasn’t a need to write things down for people to