[MD] Unkludging the MoQ

[Krimel]

[Dave]
Agreed. All I'm saying is since language more than likely emerged such a
long, long, long, long, time ago and leaves no discernable traces its
unlikely that we will ever nail down exactly when. How do you excavate a
sound? Time machine, right?

[Krimel]
The two avenues of excavation that seem most promising to me are
phylogeneticially, by looking at the social and communicative practice of
our closest primate relatives. 
And ontogenetically, in terms of the development of communicative practices
in infants and young children. In either case I think it is a safe
conclusion that humans, as humans, have never been without language.