Technology and status symbols that predate language
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That sounds like just one person's theory.
There is really no consensus on when humans acquired language, but most do seem to think that it was at the least part of the package of being an anatomically modern human (Homo Sapiens), so it is at least 100,000 years old. Thus any finds that predate language are probably not human (as we tend to think of it), but rather one of our ancestors or a sibling branch of genus Homo.
However, some scholars think most of genus Homo had language as well, which would essentially push the birth of language back to a time when all of our ancestors were confined to Africa. This would also make it roughly coincident with the earliest stone tools.
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