The lost languages of ancient humans: Listen to stone-age chat
The bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like? Paleoanthropologists study millions of years of fossil evidence to try and reconstruct the voices of the past.
TL;DR
- Fossil evidence of early humans is silent.
- Paleoanthropologists study millions of years of fossils.
- The study aims to reconstruct the sounds of ancient languages.