How did early humans communicate?

Text messaging was very difficult for early man. All text was chiseled into rock so, as you can imagine, it took a while to jot a message down, or dash one off. The real problem with text messaging back then, in the earliest days of humanity, was that once the message was finally written in stone, the process of delivering the message was cumbersome and somewhat dangerous at best, at worst...well, let's just say when the latest headlines were finally chiseled in stone, you could bet your cave bottom dollar that if was front stone news that some poor Neanderthal had been beaned by a crushing message. And I'm not talking about some Dear John letter either. Splat! Message received.

As far as phone calls go, well, there were no cellular phones, no land line phones and not even those Dixie Cups with string between them to communicate over long distances. Of course, the good news about that for early man, was he spent less time pacing around frantically looking for a better signal..."Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? Can you hear me..." Other Neanderthals and Homo-Australiapithicus or whatevericus they werethicus didn't have to stand in line at the fruits and nuts forest listening to the guy in front of them yammering on about stock options and tax shelters. No one ever heard a Neanderthal say: "I got to go, you're chewing up my minutes."

In the earliest days of man, these were primitive times and if one cave man wanted to communicate to another caveman it was most commonly done through Morse Code and telegrams. Stop. If one wanted to build a fire but had no fire wood and hoped their caveman cousin did, they would go to town, and wire a message through telegraph, then wait for a response. Can you imagine that? Early man, no doubt, had it very hard.