2. VOICE BOX
Your voice box cannot be fossilized but the hyoid
bone at the back of the tongue can be found.
Neanderthal skeleton has the same bone (60,000
years ago).
Archeologists found no difference between their
bone and ours.
They think the Neanderthal could speak but maybe
at a basic level.
Some believe that Stone Age humans had some
way to talk to each other.
This would have allowed people to work more
closely together and share culture/knowledge.
3. HOW DID LANGUAGE START?
What ways can we communicate without using
words?
Sounds/Tones
Hand Gestures
Body Language
Facial Expressions
Simple words to develop things, do not develop
conjunctions/adjectives
4. LANGUAGE EXERCISE
Come up with 5 key words for the situation given to
your group. Develop a sound for them and use the
other means of communication to tell your
message. Communicate them to the class.
What challenges did you have?
What challenges would there have been between
different groups during the Stone Age?
What do you notice about language today?
Differences/similarities?
5. LANGUAGE
Many words are shared by various languages
throughout the world.
Most are surrounded around the conditions and
environment of early people.
Snow, winter, bear, horse, dog, and snake are all words
found to be common in Indo-European languages.
On the other hand there are no common words for
elephant, camel, bamboo, tiger, etc.
We might think of these languages as tribes who
moved away from the main original family and set
up home in different parts of Europe.
6. LANGUAGE
Some languages are related
Does not mean that you can understand each other, but
they will have some words in common.
Modern English: combines French and Old English
(Latin and Scandinavian) making it both Italic and
Germanic.
English is a „mongrel‟ language because it
continues to adapt, other languages try to keep out
foreign influences
8. THE SALMON
Salmon was a plentiful/nourishing source
All along rivers going from Baltic to North Atlantic
It still lives in Russia, Scandanavia and Baltic areas
and is known as “laks”
Celtic people don‟t use that phrase, branched off and
gave a new name replacing the original
English word for salmon derives from the Latin
word for „leap‟
Spanish use “salmon” where the Portuguese use
“salmao”
The word “lax” or “leax” does appear before 1300 in
Old English but “salmond” appears in 1488
It has fallen out of use in Greece (no salmon) but
the Turks use the word to refer to „fish‟ in general