"protoliterate" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 131:",
          "text": "Knowledge of a \"fact\" and its institutionalization in a society are quite distinct: murder, for example, was probably \"discovered\" in the Pliocene, but the institutionalization of murder in warfare does not seem to have occurred until the late Neolithic or the protoliterate period.",
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        "(of a person) In the early stages of learning to read and write."
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      "word": "proto-literate"
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  "word": "protoliterate"
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