Recent Examples on the WebThe sheer variety of precious objects alerts 21st-century visitors to the ingenuity that kept our preliterate ancestors at the top of the planet's food chain. Jack Schnedler, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2021 The likelihood of preliterate peoples first inventing tales that then somehow corresponded closely to later fossil finds seems like a stunning coincidence. Timothy John Burbery, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2021 The enormous number of dog burials unearthed from the period between 14,000 and 4,000 years ago indicates the esteem preliterate societies had for dogs.Longreads, 22 Mar. 2018