Today, the telephone is certainly the first means of communication!
There's a joke here in the United States, of two people seated across each other in a restaurant. They're texting...and they're texting each other!
So, from an urgency standpoint, first telephone, then email, then meeting face to face.
From a historic standpoint, yes, I think that before humans learned to talk they had to communicate with each other via mime...then painting...then talking...the phone didn't come in for over 4,000 years!
