Our ancestors DIDN'T grunt and grumble! Humans began communicating with each other via hand gestures

Films and TV programmes have long portrayed caveman as using grunts to communicate with one another. But a new study suggests that our ancient ancestors likely did not use sounds to communicate, and instead opted for hand gestures. Researchers from the University of Western Australia asked volunteers to attempt to describe words using only grunts or gestures. They found that gestures were far more effective in communicating meaning and were often similar between cultures. 'The universality of gesture means it is ideally suited to bootstrapping human communication among modern humans and therefore supports the hypothesis that gesture is the primary modality for language creation,' the researchers said in their study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Films and TV programmes have long portrayed caveman as using grunts to communicate with one another. Searching for a way to make your point?