In preliterate societies, these forms of poetry were composed for, and sometimes during, performance.

Anyway, it's an anthology of poetry from preliterate societies.

The first epics were products of preliterate societies and oral poetic traditions.

Indeed, though most anthropologists believe that murder followed by cannibalism occurred in some preliterate societies, it has not been easy to prove that the practice ever existed.

Similarly, archaeological evidence indicates the development of astronomical knowledge in preliterate societies.

"I think you have to look at religion as a crucial part of identity in many preliterate societies," she said.

Storytellers are welcome everywhere in a preliterate society, and literacy wasn't very widespread in those days.

Several scholars said the suggested link between dance and social communication in preliterate societies was intriguing and reasonable, though not proved.

Additionally, since animism is largely associated with preliterate societies, we are dependent on the ethnographies of cultural anthropologists rather than documented scriptures and later commentary.

Animist religions are common among preliterate societies, many of which still exist in the 21st century.