preliterate

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Keller’s comparison between a ship lost in the fog and her preliterate life provides insight into her mental state.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

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

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2021

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

From The Guardian • Mar. 12, 2019

Yet writing is just one of many possible manifestations of power, and preliterate humans were obviously quite familiar with others.

From Slate • Aug. 4, 2015

Toothless old people, the repositories of information in a preliterate society, could now be fed and live longer.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond