Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur

by Sy Montgomery

these early people had a prelinguistic communication system more like music than speech. Only recently, says Mithen, have language and music, poetry, and dance separated into different ways of thinking.