Francis Foster

Right.

And the

Early humans told stories on the walls of caves.

And we think, due to certain DNA evidence, about 100,000 years ago, started telling oral stories.

But I would contend while they were passing on new information, they were passing on speculation, emotional reactions to things.

They might even have been telling recent history.

This is how the hunt went or this happened in the village over the hill.

That wasn't news.

That was information, speculation, rumor.

Just a little aside, also I think scientists misunderstand these cave drawings, these wonderful animals, some of which are extinct and we have no evidence of other than the drawing on the wall of Lascaux in France or various different Spanish caves.

But during the ice age, you're spending a lot of days indoors.

If I go to any, in the wintertime in the northern hemisphere, any person's home that has children, and I go into the child's room, what's on the walls?

Animals, pictures of animals, right?

So isn't it possible that they weren't necessarily leaving a record for us, which they had no idea about?

but to entertain their children during the long Ice Age.

So entertainment is older than news.

We knew that already.

So this goes on for a while.

City-states form, and governments began issuing decrees.

They make announcements from palace walls, and we have records of these from the Sumerians and the Babylonians and cities of Ur and Lagash.