The same way people do now.
In Margalit Fox’s book *The Riddle of the Labyrinth*, which is about the decipherment of Linear B, there are some pictures of ancient clay tablets. One of them includes a doodle that the scribe had made while the guys in charge were presumably talking about nothing important that he was supposed to write down.
That doodle looks like the kind I do on paper during boring meetings. If he had been transported across 3000 years of time and dropped in a meeting, he wouldn’t understand what we were saying, he’d have no idea about electric lights and laptops, but when he saw me doodling in the margins he would know exactly what I was doing and why I was doing it. Because he did the same thing at his meetings. 3000 years, nothing has changed, people are still people.
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