Meaning of protoliterate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. With written language that is in its early stages.
   not-comparable
2. Of or related to the Protoliterate period.
   historical, not-comparable
3. In the early stages of learning to read and write.
   not-comparable

Examples

“Knowledge of a "fact" and its institutionalization in a society are quite distinct: murder, for example, was probably "discovered" in the Pliocene, but the institutionalization of murder in warfare does not seem to have occurred until the late Neolithic or the protoliterate period.”

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