ABSTRACT
Static visual decorations and depictions offer point-in-time configurations that, save for attenuation due to the erosion of material, are constant. In contrast, speech offers across-time ephemeral auditory sequences. When people began constructing decorations and depictions, at least one hundred thousand years ago, they acquired the capacity to communicate with the use of artifacts and constructed the first technologies that allowed them to share experiences in new ways. Prior to the development of that ability all communication was processual and action based.
