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A little blurb on dinosauroid cultural-technological development.     With saurian technology, the route to modern stone-blade technology was just as alternate to our own as was their route to intelligence. While our ancestors developed the hand-axe and honed their stone-throwing skills to scavenge kills, the saurian’s ancestors were developing more and more advanced pointy sticks. Beginning with twig and leaf tools for grub-fishing, these developed into larger proto-spears, for stabbing into burrows and dens of small mammals and birds. These developed into hardier stabbing spears, which became the main tool of cooperative killing of small...

Complex communication - of abstract ideas, states of mind, etc, is one of the signifiers of advanced intelligences - and in the dinosauroids, or avisapiens, it is no different. Their languages are as much visual as verbal, and though the verbal aspects change from region to region, the visual language of the body is nearly universal (within species, that is - A. saurotheos and A. borealis, respectively). Avisapiens visual communication is a development of the ancestral proto-dinosauroid’s visual displays - of dominance, submission, play, fear - that became, over millennia, the cues and modifiers in much more complex communication. For exam...