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Language is so deeply embedded in almost every aspect of the way we interact with the world that it's hard to imagine what it would be like not to have it. What if we didn't have names for things? What if we didn't have experience making statements, asking questions, or talking about things that hadn't actually happened? Would we be able to think? What would our thoughts be like?

The answer to the question of whether thought is possible without language depends on what you mean by thought. Can you experience sensations, impressions, feelings without language? Yes, and very few would argue otherwise. But there is a difference between being able to experience, say, pain or light, and possessing the concepts "pain" and "light." Most would say true thought entails having the concepts.

Many artists and scientists, in describing their own inner processes while they work, say they do not use words to solve problems, but images. The autistic author Temple Grandin, in explaining how she thinks visually rather than linguistically, says that concepts for her are collections of images. Her concept of "dog," for example, "is inextricably linked to every dog I've ever known. It's as if I have a card catalog of dogs I have seen, complete with pictures, which continually grows as I add more examples to my video library." Of course, Grandin has language, and knows how to use it, so it is hard to say how much of her thinking has been influenced by it, but it is not unimaginable-and probably likely-that there are people who lack the ability to use language and think in the way she describes.

There is also evidence that deaf people cut off from language, spoken or signed, think in sophisticated ways before they have been exposed to language. When they later learn language, they can describe the experience of having had thoughts like those of the 15 year old boy who wrote in 1836, after being educated at a school for the deaf, that he remembered thinking in his pre-language days "that perhaps the moon would strike me, and I thought that perhaps my parents were strong, and would fight the moon, and it would fail, and I mocked the moon." Also, the spontaneous sign languages developed by deaf students without language models, in places like Nicaragua, display the kind of thinking that goes far beyond mere sensory impression or practical problem solving.

However, while it appears that we can indeed think without language, it is also the case that there are certain kinds of thinking that are made possible by language. Language gives us symbols we can use to fix ideas, reflect on them and hold them up for observation. It allows for a level of abstract reasoning we wouldn't have otherwise. The philosopher Peter Carruthers has argued that there is a type of inner, explicitly linguistic thinking that allows us to bring our own thoughts into conscious awareness. We may be able to think without language, but language lets us know that we are thinking.

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Is It Possible To Think Without Language?

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Language is so deeply embedded in almost every aspect of the way we interact with the world that it's hard to imagine what it would be like not to have it. What if we didn't have names for things? What if we didn't have experience making statements, asking questions, or talking about things that hadn't actually happened?

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Vocabuulary for How do we know the past without written evidence?

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with paintings and drawings.

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Cave drawings

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weapons

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With gestures.

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Drawings, Paintings, and body language

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Drawings, Paintings and Gestures

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Drawings, sounds, gestures.

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It is possible because you can picture something in your head like a map and even though we cannot imagine thinking without written language people from that time can.

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I don't think it is impossible to think without written language because everyone in the world is always thinking even if they don't know they are

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Gestures

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You could observe different places and see if there are distinct similarities of disturbance, find bones and see marks on them that could give evidence of casualty.

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We know about the past without having written evidence by inferring things and knowing how things work so we can make a very accurate hypothesis of what happened in the past

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i think it is possible to think without written language bec

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drawing, gestures

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yes it is possible. you can have thoughts in your head without writing them down.

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Drawings, and paintings.

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Cats hunt, you have to thonk to hunt

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Hand gestures/body language, art, sounds, pictures

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i agree with jude

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Their skeletons and cavedrawings if you don't count that as a writing

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Feelings, and gestures

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Skeletons, artifacts, and paintings.

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Yes because you have feelings and sounds, and you can picture gestures in your mind

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I agree with sam

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Paleolithic Cave Arts in Northern Spain(1) El Castillo Cave, Cantabria

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Skeletons, and other physical evidence.

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You can make sounds, have feelings and you can think about body language.

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It is possible, because everyone is always thinking something.

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Before Civilization - Ancient Civilizations for Kids

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This site covers the history of ancient civilizations for students in primary or secondary schools. Ancient history of the early four ancient civilizations: Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, and Ancient India in basic and simple language.

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Look at the website and read the article.  Pin the locations on a google map and ask for 'help' so I can come and see your map. If you have time start writing a paragraph to answer this question.

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Learn how to drop a pin in Google Maps and save your frequently visited places on Android, iOS, and Web.

There is so much more to Google Maps than merely getting from A to B. It can provide you with public transportation routes and times, and customize your journey depending on your method of travel. It also lets you drop a pin in a location and either save it to your profile or share it with friends.

Dropping a pin is useful if the place you're looking for doesn't have an address or is off the road network. It's also helpful on the odd occasion when Google gets a location wrong. Here's how to drop a pin on Google Maps on both Android and iOS.

How to Drop a Pin on Google Maps Mobile (Android)

To drop a pin on Google Maps when using an Android device:

1. Open the Google Maps app.

2. Either search for an address or scroll around the map until you find the location you want.

3. Long-press on the screen to drop a pin.

4. The address or location will pop up at the bottom of the screen.

5. Tap on the location to share it, save it, add a label to it, or get directions.

How to Drop a Pin on Google Maps Mobile (iPhone)

The process for how to drop a pin in Google Maps on iOS is broadly the same as the process for Android.

1. Open the Google Maps app.

2. Search for an address or scroll around the map until you find the ideal pin location.

3. To drop the pin, long-press on the screen in the desired location.

4. The address or coordinates will pop up at the bottom of the screen.

5. Tap on the location to see more details, get directions, add labels, etc.

How to Drop a Pin on Google Maps on Desktop

Many people don't realize that it's also possible to drop a pin on Google Maps from any desktop operating system.

The process is straightforward:

1. Head to the Google Maps homepage.

2. Find the location where you want to place the dropped pin, then left-click on the exact spot.

3. A small grey pin icon will appear on the map, and you'll see an information box pop up at the bottom of the screen.

4. If you click on the information box, a new panel will appear on the left-hand side of the screen containing more information and providing you will some additional options.

How to Make the Most of a Dropped Pin

Let's now look at some of the things you can do once you've dropped the pin and you're happy with the pin's location.

The exact options vary slightly depending on whether you're using a mobile or desktop operating system. We'll look at each feature in turn.

Use a Dropped Pin for Directions

Available on: Mobile and Desktop

As we said at the start, Google Maps' most useful feature is arguably its ability to provide directions. If you're not sure about the address of a particular location, then dropped pins become an essential part of the process.

You can choose to use your dropped pin as a start point or as an endpoint. Sadly, there is no way to place two dropped pins and find directions between them. Instead, you'll need to place one pin, make a note of the address or coordinates, then drop a second pin to use as your start point/destination.

Save a Pin Location

Available on: Mobile and Desktop

You can save a pin's location to a list that's connected to your Google account. You can then access it on all your devices.

By default, three pre-made lists are available: Favourites, Want to go, and Starred places. You can add more lists (and delete the defaults) by going to Your Places in the app's main menu. Each list can be public or private, or shared with specific other users. You can also make groups lists that anyone can add pins to--- they're useful for vacations and day trips.

Send a Desktop Pin to Your Phone

Available on: Desktop

If you drop a pin on Google Maps via the desktop version of the app, you can share it with your Google Maps mobile app, email it to the Gmail address that's connected to your account, or share it via text with the phone number that you have associated with your Google account.

Just click on Send to your phone to get started.

Available on: Mobile and Desktop

The Google Maps desktop app provides four ways to share a dropped pin with other users (not including the lists feature as discussed above).

On the desktop, you can either:

Copy and paste the automatically generated short link to share it with other people.

Click on the Facebook icon to share a location directly with the network.

Post your link in Twitter by selecting the Twitter icon.

Grab the HTML code to embed the map into a webpage.

If you're sharing a dropped pin location from an Android or iOS device, you are forced to use your operating system's native Share menu. The embed option will not be available.

Add a Label to a Dropped Pin

Available on: Mobile and Desktop

You can label your dropped pins with a custom word or phrase. The labels will sync across your entire Google account, and they will appear on all Google Maps versions.

The feature does have a trade-off, however. As per Google's own message:

"Personal places will be used across Google products, for personalized recommendations, and for more useful ads."

Only you can decide whether you are comfortable with the situation from a privacy standpoint.

How to Remove Dropped Pins

Now you know how to drop a pin. But what about deleting a dropped pin? How do you remove one from your map?

To remove a pin location on Android and iOS, tap the X icon in the text box at the top of the page. If you want to delete a dropped pin on desktop, either click anywhere else on the map or press the X icon on the information box at the bottom of the screen.

Learn More About Using Google Maps

The pins feature on Google Maps is just one small part of the app's features. If you'd like to learn more about getting the most out of the app, check out our other articles on the best Google Maps tricks for Android and the best Google Maps tricks for bus passengers.

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How to Drop a Pin on Google Maps (Mobile and Desktop)

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Learn how to drop a pin in Google Maps and save your frequently visited places on Android, iOS, and Web. There is so much more to Google Maps than merely getting from A to B. It can provide you with public transportation routes and times, and customize your journey depending on your method of travel.

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Skeletons, chalk marks, weapons

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gestures, noises

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I agree with Jude.

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Sort of. You can but not accurately.  You cannot accurately because you cant see them or hear them or know what they think. you can also not know very well because they didnt write anything. this causes you not to know whats going on very well but they could draw on the wall which makes it so you can kind of tell what was happening. lastly, you can kind of know because the drawings were in caves. from this you can infer that they lived in caves.

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You can kind of track the life of the prehistoric nomads because you can find artifacts, disturbances in the land, bones, etc. but you don't know exactly what happens every day, although if you read written evidence it is usually from one person's perspective which can be bias to certain things.

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it is possible to get an idea of what life was like, because of the paintings and drawings, but you can't see what they were thinking back then. You can guess what happened based on physical evidence, but you can't get an accurate representation without written evidence.