Tracing the evolution of language through stories

[Craig Good]

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/on-the-origin-of-stories/424629/

"Many of the Tales of Magic were similarly ancient, as the Grimms suggested. Beauty and the Beast and Rumpelstiltskin were first written down in the 17th and 18th centuries respectively, but they are actually between 2,500 and 6,000 years old—not quite tales as old as time, but perhaps as old as wheels and writing."