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It seems (though it is controversial) that some time during the last ice-age the brain (but not the visible anatomy) evolved to the point that there was a sudde
by adrianratnapala 10y ago
It seems (though it is controversial) that some time during the last ice-age the brain (but not the visible anatomy) evolved to the point that there was a sudden explosion in culture (as visible to archaeology through art, burials etc.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Revolution_(human_origins) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Revolution_(human_or....
Herding and framing then began as soon as that ice-age receded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_period#/media/File:Co2_glacial_cycles_800k.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_period#/media/File:Co2...
After that, human culture has been changing continuously as cities, states, writing and all the rest evolved and continue to evolve.
- Balgair 10y agoRemember that many of the areas we know think of as ocean, were at that time dry land (Sundaland, Doggerland, etc) or covered in a mile of glacier. Even today fishermen will haul up old tools and bones from the Dogger banks off in the north sea. We may have had agriculture in many areas and times, but have not yet found the evidence for it, or the evidence is submerged and too hard to get to, or we built on top of it. Xenophon wrote of very ancient cities way back in ~400BC whose origins are attributed to legends and gods, possibly those cities were already thousands of years old. https://thenaturalhistorian.com/2014/02/04/fishing-for-fossils-in-the-north-sea-the-lost-world-of-doggerland/ https://thenaturalhistorian.com/2014/02/04/fishing-for-fossi... http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:tlg,0032,006:3:4 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:tlg...