Re: OT: Origin of names (WAS: Re: Proto-Uralic?)

>Which reminds me; what are the orthodox ideas on when and why people
>started
>to use names?
For myself, I assume names began to be used as soon as language developed
since even some species which have no language (e.g. apes) seem to identify
individulas.

How and when language developed? There're some attempts to tie this to brain
size, jaw, mouth and throat structure, based on reconstruction from fossils;
and at least one attempt to tie it to group/herd size. All interesting, but
for me, all in the category of hypothesis.

>* I usually find myself unable to appreciate historical novels and movies,
>because I tend to react very badly at historical inaccuracies, and know
>enough
>history to notice things like 1400s armour in a film supposed to be set in
>the
>1200s.
Ah, my partner has the same issues with historical inaccurancy. And just try
to watch peacefully an historical movie, set pre-1700, with a groups of SCA*
members. :)

*SCA = Society for Creative Anachronism

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