Культурная эволюция Homo sapiens. История изобретений: от освоения огня до открытия электричества - стр. 4

The book will interest not only readers, but also scientists and specialists.

Contents

1. Fire

Neanderthals and fire

Culinary hypothesis

Taming the Fire

The price and importance of fire

Vegetable food and self-medication

Against microorganisms

2. Ceramics

Archaeological excavations of ceramics.

Microorganisms and ceramics. Possible causes of ceramics

Genes and ceramics

3. Funeral activities

Death in the animal world

Primates (modern times)

Homo heidelbergensis

Middle Paleolithic. Early homo sapiens

Late homo sapiens

Neanderthals

Disputes about the premeditation of burials

Chronology of Neanderthal burials

Homo sapiens in the Upper (Late) Paleolithic (37,000—21,000 BC)

Madeleine culture

Natufian culture

Neolithic

The Copper – Stone Age circa 2500—1900 BC.

4. Cremation

Middle Paleolithic

Upper Paleolithic

Mesolithic

Neolithic

The Copper-Stone Age (Eneolithic) and the Bronze Age

Iron Age

Zoroastrianism

Antiquity

Middle Ages

China, Korea, Japan

Cremation in India

Conclusion

5. Jewelry

History and archaeology

Decoration in the animal world

Sexual selection, social status and pathogens

What are the decorations for. Hypotheses

6. Hair loss

Hypotheses

Parasites

Control of parasites in animals

7. Combs

8. Security

History and archaeology

What is ochre for? Hypotheses

Or maybe pathogens?

Is beauty the result of social necessity or protection from parasites?

9. Tattoos

Copper and Bronze Age

The Iron Age.

Are tattoos initiation, social status, magic or ancient medicine?

Tattooing and Medicine

10. Progressive inventions. Metallurgy. The era of early metal. Eneolithic.

Metal discovery hypothesis

Chronology of the appearance of copper objects.

Why metal?

The Copper – Stone Age in Asia

11. Bronze

Early Bronze Age.

Middle Bronze Age

Late Bronze Age

Bronze in East Asia.

12. Bronze bells.

13. Metallurgy. Iron

The Iron Age in Asia

Why iron?

14. Progressive inventions. Mirror and Glass

Mirror

History of the mirror

Antiquity

Glass

Beads and small amulets made of glass.

15. The invention of electricity

The history of electricity and magnetism.

Telephone, lamp, TV.

Afterword