In 1976, Jaynes wrote about the "bicameral mind" as something that emerged in the Iron Age. This was difficult to prove, at the least.
Since then we've seen a few books explaining how humans handle abstractions. "Platonic" abstractions, as a post-Axial-Age writer might term them. Harpending and Cochran. The Great Divide over in the New World. Kugel, The God of Old and The Great Shift.
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