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According to the studies obscenity increases the threshold of tolerance to pain. Scientists explain this with the fact that the ability to curse and swear may have evolved in our ancestors as a method to increase aggression, while at the same time reduces the sensitivity to physical pain. American experts have established that even cursing in our thoughts can have identical effect.

Cursing is an analogue to the prehistoric language, formed in the dawn of the human evolution. The explanation: centuries ago the biological meaning of the cuss is not only to serve as a weapon against hostile behavior, but also a way to maintain a rating status quo. This can be achieved by demonstrating own aggression.

For example, the dominating male in a herd of anthropoids expressed his aggression by demonstrating the “excitedly raised” position of his sexual instrument. It is well known that inside a group of primates there is a strict and fierce hierarchy which allows only the leader to perform such demonstrations.

Hence, the “genital” aggression still exists in human society. But it exists not as some archaic imitation of copulation as a way to humiliate the weaker, but in a more evolved and modern variant, i.e. the respective indecent gestures and vulgar expressions.

Another reference to the ancient times is that swearing often mentions the female gender. In the basis of the cuss containing contemptuous evaluation of prostitutes and their illegally born children lie the same biological roots. As an insurance against unwanted genetic material inherited from previous males and against potential sexual rivals, the collective conscience of many nations still perceives a resistant image about the righteousness of chastity and condemns the indecent behavior of whores.

For next parts see:

Cuss more, live longer: Part Two

Cuss more, live longer: Part Three

We are in an age where if you don’t have an electronic device, you will do poorly. It seems as if now that our brains are changing to suit these electronics, or that they are becoming one with us. Things that we can put memories down in are now extensions of our memory. It makes you wonder about if ww will someday have cyborgs as the new human. Our technonlogy right now is very primitive compared to some other things. We have our body’s rejecting mechanical limbs, the limbs cannot mimic a humans yet, and the cost of maintenance is high. When will we become a new generation of people, ones that are not only with nature, but machine?

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After all, ever since the Middle Ages the ape had been viewed as a devil-created mockery of humanity. So to place the human being, created in the image of God, on a line with apes bordered on blasphemy. A hundred years  later, in 1858, Charles Darwin threw open the question of human evolution with a single remark in his Origin of Species: “Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.” A heretical sentence, which the first German translator of the work found so offensive that he did not translate it. Darwin’s hidden thesis (and that of his often-forgotten fellow fighter Alfred Russel Wallace) that humans, like all other living things, must be the result of an evolutionary process and not a unique divine act of creation, was revolutionary. Darwin himself first summed up his views on human origins in 1871 in his Descent of Man. In Germany, the zoologists Carl  Vogt and Ernst Haeckel paved the way for the theory of evolution in scholarly circles. In 1863, Haeckel delivered a lecture in which he argued that there must have been a link,now extinct, between apes and humans. He named this “missing link” Pithecanthropus alalus—“non-speaking ape-man”—and foretold that the fossil remains of this ancestor would be found in southeast Asia. Haeckel’sprophecy about the place of discovery would be fulfilled.

The origin of humanity has never been discussed with complete objectivity, since of course it is an issue that
touches all human beings  and is closely linked to ideological and political interests. Many regarded the  extension of the human family tree into the animal kingdom as scandalous. As the bishop of Worcester’s wife
is supposed to have said after a conversation with Darwin’s supporter Thomas Henry Huxley in 1860: “My
dear, descended from the apes! Let us hope it is not true, but if it is, let us pray it will not become generally
known.” Neither the fervent hope of the pious bishop’s wife nor the 1812 pronouncement of the French natural philosopher Georges, Baron de Cuvier, that “fossil man does not exist” kept fossil humans from winning recognition. The Neanderthal discovered in 1856 provided the first “living” evidence. The Neander Valley near Mettmann, the discovery site of the first fossil evidence of primordial humans, was  named after the Bremen theologian and hymnographer Joachim Neumann (composer of “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of Creation”). As was fashionable in 1670, he used the Greek translation of his name, “Neander” (Newman), in compliment to antiquity. Joachim Neander, at that time rector of the Düsseldorf Latin School, visited the “Rocks,” as the area was called then, seeking inspiration from the mountains, crags, streams, and cliffs “with a special amazement.” Whole generations of painters from the Düsseldorf Academy did the same.

The Neander Valley became a locale for seeking the muses, a place of lyric poetry, sketches, and watercolors.
It was doubtless the picturesque limestone cliffs and mysterious caves along the course of the Düssel River that enticed artists and town-dwellers to the “Rocks” (also called “Dog’s Crag” locally), only two hours distant by coach. Countless excursion groups sent couriers to the nearby guesthouses to order the proprietors “to have trout for 25 people ready, and also to lay in a supply of fresh butter and bread,” so that, strengthened by a good meal, they could wander in the valley. The picturesque limestone cliffs between Erkrath and Mettmann were ormed in the Devonian Age, between 360 and 410 million years ago. At that time, a shallow, tropically-warm sea covered the area that is now central and southern Europe. Clay and sand were repeatedly washed into the sea and laid down layer by layer. Coral reefs developed that, with the remains of their former occupants (lime-containing shells), created enormous chalk layers over the course of millions of years, finally hardening into limestone. These layers were covered over with slate.

Finally, more clay and sand were washed into the sea from the land during the later Devonian Age, destroying the coral reefs’ habitat. In the following Carboniferous Era (360–290 million years BP [before the present]), tectonic plate movements pushed the limestone up through the slate layers above it. The limestone cliffs became solid land; their surface eroded and was cleared away by natural processes like rain and wind.
Less natural was the demolition carried out by humans millions of years later. This landscape of cliffs and
caves, where the study of primordial humankind (paleoanthropology) was born, has now to a large extent
vanished.

In less than fifty years a limestone quarry that was opened in the region destroyed the picturesque valley
and its gold-white limestone cliffs and caves. Johann Carl Fuhlrott, the first preserver of the Neanderthal
bones that two quarry workers found in 1856, both lamented and welcomed this circumstance in his first
description of the fossils: . . . the thoughtful nature lover will doubtless lament that the unstoppable industrial
progress of our age has not restrained itself from sweeping through the rare charms of this little landscape
and in part destroying them. He will join to his laments the deeply felt wish that at least the part of the right
side of the gorge in which the Neanderthal cave lies, which has remained intact so far, should be preserved for
the present generation and for posterity. But, however much people may share in these laments and wishes, they should not fail to appreciate that without the limestone quarrying set in train by the Neander Valley Corporation for the Marble Industry on the left bank of the Düssel, the interesting discovery in question would not have come to scientific attention for a long time, if ever.

When the bones were uncovered, the credit for keeping them from being dumped into the Little Feldhof
Grotto along with the limestone rubble goes to Wilhelm Beckershoff, owner of the quarry in the Neander
Valley. Guided by a hunch that what had been found were the fossil bones  of cave bears, he had the
fragments collected from the loose rubble. At that time, fossil animal bones were no longer a novelty. Johann
Heinrich Merck of Darmstadt, a good friend of Goethe, collected, described, and reconstructed fossil animals.
And the Bonn geologist Johann Jakob Noeggerath, who visited the Neander Valley and its cave-filled
landscape, wrote: The clay of caves, doubtless deposited in what scientists call the Diluvian Period of the
earth, appears not to have been examined yet. By analogy to similar deposits in other limestone caves it isnot improbable that in these one could find primordial animal bones of cave bears, hyenas, wolverines, and the like. This makes excavation of this clay appear highly advisable, since perhaps with a lucky find natural  historical collections could be enriched. As prophesied by Noeggerath, it became clear how fortunate the quarry owner Beckershoff’s find was when his partner Friedrich Wilhelm Pieper gave the bones to the zealous fossil collector Fuhlrott. Fuhlrott, a teacher in Eberfeld, was a child of his age. He knew about the latest findings in the new sciences of geology, archaeology, and paleontology, and did not hesitate long with his assessment. He labeled the bones that had been given him as supposedly those of cave bears—a skull cap, a fragment of a right shoulder blade, a right clavicle, as well as right and left humerus, two ulnas, a radius, five rib fragments, the left half of a pelvis, and two femurs—as unequivocally human (Figure 1). Stimulated by the sketchy media report about the early humans, who must have belonged “to the race of the flat-heads, who still live today in the American West,” two Bonn anatomy professors contacted Fuhlrott. These men, Hermann Schaaffhausen and Franz Josef Carl Mayer, were curious about the discovery and asked Fuhlrott to send them the precious bones. Fuhlrott kept the two scholars dangling for a bit, then traveled to Bonn himself, carrying the Neanderthal in his luggage, carefully packed in a wooden chest. Mayer, sick in bed at the time of Fuhlrott’s visit, missed the first scientific encounter with the Neanderthal. Nonetheless, the fossils found themselves in good hands with Schaaffhausen. He himself had already written an article, “On Stability and Change in Species,” in 1853, in which he discussed the existence of fossil humans. Only six months after this first appraisal, on 2 June 1857, Schaaffhausen and Fuhlrott presented the discovery to the scholarly world. Those who attended this meeting of the Natural History Society of the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia witnessed a major historical moment. In his essay “Human Remains from a Cliff Grotto in the Düssel Valley,” published in 1859, Fuhlrott achieved a remarkable contribution to research on the existence of fossil humans.

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Bones that wrote history: (a) Neanderthal calvarium (skull cap);  (b) Neanderthal anatomy. The 40,000-year-old
fossils that gave the Neanderthals their name were uncovered in 1856. At that time were found: a fragment of the
left temple, a skull cap, two femurs and two humeruses, a right radius, a fragment of a right ulna, a right clavicle, a fragment of the right shoulder blade, the left ulna, five ribs, and  an almost complete left half of the pelvis. After the rediscovery of  the original find site, between 1997 and 2000 further pieces of the Neanderthal were found, including a piece of the front of a skull that fit perfectly with the skull parts that had already been uncovered

The discovery would not let the teacher rest. Thus, two years after the bones were uncovered he again
asked  the workers about the exact site of the find. It emerged that the fossil-bearing clay layer in the Little
Feldhofer Grotto was about 1.5 to 1.8 meters thick and that it was therefore likely that the entire skeleton lay
about half a meter below the surface of the sediment, with its head toward the cave’s entrance. The published
data included precisely described anatomical peculiarities in the find, such as the unusually heavy bones and
brow ridges, “which were completely joined in the middle.” The editors of the society’s proceedings  commented in an afterword that they “cannot share the reported opinions.” Fuhlrott ended his essay
interpreting the Neanderthal as an ice-age “primitive member of our race” with the statement that he would
gladly renounce “every attempt at propaganda” to convince “and leave the final judgment about the existence
of fossil humans to the future.” But the German scholarly community had apparently reached its negative
judgment long before this point.

END OF PART 1

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How many; not a centuries but millenniums has being since evolution of man kind, I would say it was few and yet if you get out some places, it look like that we just became human out of “Monkey” No! may I suggest to look around you? You have man wearing pants, that practically pants crutch is below they knees or they may have five different shirts hanging down they butts, some wearing they heir it is hard to tell if is human or beast. Now females with fat asses wearing pants three sizes smaller then they should, when they bend down they are taking your picture with they rear end. O yeah on beaches wearing so called thongs, I have no idea why west money and put anything on, with out anything on they would look whole lot better, If you wondering why every time I see something like that it reminds me of a mule my parents had when I was growing up, you see saddle that was use on mules and dunmies it has to have stripe under bailey and one under the tail otherwise saddle would slide down to they neck when going down the hill. This does not only apply to young generation but to some old bats with one leg in grave and they think that are beautiful.

Yes I have another word for them.

I am sorry but it makes me puke.

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His find was greeted with a little muted criticism from a minority of paleontologists, the majority of the scientific community of that time hailed the finding of the Piltdown Man as the missing evolutionary link between man and the ape. The remains were estimated to be up to a million years old. Scientists heralded the finding, dubbed it Dawson’s Dawn-man and further added this find as being confirmation of Darwin’s at that time still controversial theory of human evolution.

During tests in the 1920’s and 30’s the gravel in the pits at Piltdown were found to not be as old as believed and through other finds of early man from around the world the authenticity of Piltdown Man was called into question. At an international congress of paleontologists in 1953 the Piltdown Man was called a fraud. After an intense study they were found to contain a human cranium no more than 600 years old, the jaw and teeth of an orangutan and the tooth of a chimpanzee. Further tests revealed that the teeth had been doctored with a file or similar to make them appear to be more human. Scientists further revealed that the bones had been treated with chemicals to make them appear as though they were older. Other fossils found at the site were proved to be genuine but not found in Britain.

The person that orchestrated this hoax never came forward. In 1996 a trunk was found in storage at the British museum which contained fossils treated in the same manner as those of the Piltdown Man. The trunk was labeled with the initials MACH, Martin AC Hinton was a volunteer at the British Museum in 1912, later he became a curator of zoology within the museum and was now the likely culprit. Some theories were that he was attempting to embarrass the museums curator of that time for his refusal to grant Hinton a pay rise.

There is a popular saying floating around these days on signs, shirts, and postcards at gift shops in the English speaking world that is not as positive as it pretends to be. That saying is “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass. Life is about learning to dance in the rain.”. I get the point that the original creator of this saying was trying to get across , and why those who adhere to it like it,

however with that be written, I also know what this saying is actually saying to the subconscious mind of those who buy into it. I know the thought patterns this saying is strengthening in people with a mind set that eats up such negative cuteisms masqueraded as wisdom. What it is actually saying is “accept your lot in life because you can never change it.” Therefore the saying “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass. Life is about learning to dance in the rain.” is actually a mantra put forth for the purposes of controlling the masses.

For centuries people in power have known that reality is quite malleable and have kept that information close to their belts. These people who have shaped our world have done so in an attempt to shape a better life for themselves and their families first. At times after the fact they have tried to make the world a better place for others. The main thing these folks had in common was that they understood life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about creating the stage on which you dance rain or shine. They also understood that is was possible to stop the proverbial rain when needed. This minor shift in wording is a major shift in thinking.

Although I quite enjoy physically dancing in an actual warm rain the notion that I must accept what ever life deals me with a dance and a smile is one that I find manipulative at best. I know some people view life’s hardships as tests and they always seem to be getting tested because their gratitude that they are being tested is rewarded not with a break from the tests, but with even more and worse tests. Open up your eyes and ears on this subject and start looking at the people you know who appreciate hard life lessons and you will see that they have more than their fair share of hardships. Now look at those who show gratitude when their path is made is and guess what their path gets easier. You get more of what you show gratitude for.

Most of the people who buy into the notion that life is about learning to dance in the rain also buy into the notion that adversity builds character. I wonder if they have ever heard about the likes of Charles Manson and his life story. Manson’s life was filled with adversity and it did build character in him, a bad character. This is a subject I will be exploring further in a future article. However, those who buy into this acceptance of dire fates and lower lots in life are in part responsible for the creation of people like Charles Manson and in a protracted way their deeds as well.

You do not like that last paragraph and think I am being too harsh? I am not pulling punches or messing around anymore in my writing on subjects like this one. The subject is too important. If you are not a part of manifesting paradise on Earth through the creation of a positive stage on which you and those around you can dance then you are a part of the problem. The only test that we are facing is that of showing our ability as a species to create Heaven on Earth. Find that you want to become a part of that goal.

The next step in human evolution is one of the mind and how we use the mind to shape reality. We can either use ours minds to shape it as a paradise or shape it as a hell. We can have the attitude that rain is always a bad thing and accept that at times we must endure bad things because it is our lot, or we can understand that we can create a stage in which rain plays a beneficial part and goes away when it is not needed. Now examine the thoughts in your head after reading this to see if they are a genuine part of your being or purely a result of of misguided and negative cultural or religious conditioning. If they are the latter begin to think differently and now find that you really want to be a part of the solution!

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Then, about 9,000 years ago, agriculture was invented with disastrous results. Most of our planet’s green places were taken over by farmers, which meant that just three plants – wheat, rice and maize – became the staple died of the human race. This left us smaller and less healthy. Still, agriculture spread because a piece of farmland could support then times the number of people who lived off it as hunter-gatherers.

During the last ice age, 10,000 years ago, people were slightly rounder and taller – an answer to the cold. Larger round bodies are undoubtedly better at keeping in the heat! Since our climate bnegan to get hotter, we appear to hafve become slightly thinner and smaller. As global warming begins to take effect, we may shrink even further. Mankind’s future could be that of a couch potato, a lazy creature, with a taste for far too much junk food, comfortablle sofas and home entertainment. Some scientists say that nor enough excersise will result in humans developing smaller skeletons and bodies which are too fat. On the other hand, nowdays, in Europe, America and Japan, diets are beginning to be what they were before.

As a result, heights in some countries are soaring, but the world has not yet been intelligent enough to come to terms with whis. A standard European bed legth was ficed in 1860, while the height of a door was decided in 1880, and bioth have remained the same ever since. Even worse, the leg room in some planes and trains seems to have shrunk rather than grown. The question is, where will it all end?

We cannot carry on growing for ever!

Its Civilisation based upon our technological development, and the refinement of society as a whole that defines human progress through the ages. There is so much emphasis on our evolution as a species that we forget that its society that is the core to our existence. Our civilisation had developed to a point allowing us to look into the outer reaches of space. We also know that past civilisations had developed and crumbled, sometimes a pattern of two steps forward only to take five steps back in our evolutionary cycle as a civilised species. This is best emphasised with the fall of of Rome, and the slew of barbaric tribes swamping western Europe. Its when we realise our limited understanding of our ancient past, that we turn to the mineralised scraps of genetic evolution in the primitive human remains deep within the ground. Civilisations arise and disappear, sometimes completely over only half a millennium. We cant begin to comprehend the huge number of civilisations that had evolved and disintegrated over the last 300.000 years alone. Today we are at the beginning of a technological boom, which is propelling the developed world onto a path of further evolution. The world is changing as we speak, but still most of the worlds population is left out of the loop. It really is the survival of the fittest and most powerful. I’ll try to illustrate how technology has allowed different civilisations to evolve through time. This will also give us a better understanding of just how we should be looking at our collective past as a species, and better understand the world around us based upon a realistic model.

Take for example this metaphor as the time line and our eventual progress. I’ll designate three points in time, and for arguments sake well make each point in time a thousand year increment. Point one will be Destination 1, point two will be Destination 2, and point three (a difference of two thousand years from the first point), is destination 3. Now we’ll distinguish two different civilisations, calling one, Group A, and the other Group B.

Now both Group A, and Group B are naturally travelling forwards in time, so say they had both derived from a common ancestor, and for arguments sake they were both equally technologically advanced to begin with upon leaving destination 1. Group A develops its technology and finds it could fly to the Destination 2. Group B does not. Its technological advancements had become limited, and their means of travel is confined to foot travel. Group A reaches Destination 2, and continues onto Destination 3. The technologically inept Group B, is still plodding along on foot almost unchanged by the years. Now there’s only one time line, and when you superimpose the progress of Group A upon Group B, and just where the first group had been at any given time, in its evolutionary cycle, compared to Group B it all becomes too clear. At every given point in time, the technology has allowed Group A to flourish and advance whilst Group B was forever the backward civilisation. At Destination 2 it becomes clearly evident that Group A has advanced and made good use of the past millennium, and that Group B has failed to adapt, and evolve its technology and thus its progress as a civilisation.

Say that over time Group B begins to adapt to the technological means of Group A. After all surely at least somebody from Group B would eventually fly with Group A. The two civilisations begin to mingle, and information and technology becomes shared around between both groups. Despite this Group B never quite reaches the standard , nor achieve the sheer pace of development enjoyed by Group A. This is representative in today’s world. Africa is a huge example of a Group B striving to adapt to the standards of Group A, and despite modernisation they are forever backward in more than one facet. It would take mankind a further millennium for both Group A and B to get to Destination 3 to determine the ultimate fate of both civilisations. Will upon arrival of the next millennium, there be just a single civilisation? Will Group B slowly adapt to a point they become just a factor within Group A? Or will Group B forever be inferior to the advanced Group A? Will a Group C develop out of the Group A, and overtime overshadow the supposedly advanced Group A? Will the advanced Group A find a catastrophic end, rendering Group B as the remaining civilisation? The possibilities are there after all.

We don’t know whats in store for the world in the centuries to come, just as we struggle to piece together a vague human history we all but speculate over. We find it fascinating that our ancestry may nave been sea farers. This theory alone contradicts our traditional understanding that our ancestors left Africa by foot and through their passage through the middle east did they finally find their way into Europe. New archaeological finds contradict this, and even state that our ancestors had traveled by some sort of water craft to reach Europe. I believe anythings possible because we know so little. Maybe highly developed societies did exist 100-500.000 years ago? We just don’t know. This is why the so called scientists researching our ancient past need to adapt a far more flexible approach towards these new finds. Maybe we are merely a modernised Group B, the remnants of an advanced Group A civilisation? Maybe one day we’ll find a way of finding out.

Were our ancestors sea farers? Id like to think so!

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Believers of ancient astronaut theory like Erich Von Daniken, author of the popular book, “Chariots of the Gods”, and Zecharia Sitchin, author of many books on the subject, both maintain that historical gaps and unexplained archaeological records can’t dismiss the fact that ancient civilization was far advanced in technical culture and aware of strange flying craft above their heads. These ancient people were also aware of the “Gods” or “super-beings” who that flew these air ships, descending from the heavens and sharing wisdom.

Zecharia Sitchin’s book “The 12th Planet” claims the Sumerians (ancient inhabitants of southern Mesopotamia in 4000 BC) believed the “Anunnaki” visited the Earth 400,000 years ago and interfered with human evolution, with the Sumerians in fact to create “royal offspring”. The idea of ancient astronauts have played an incredible part in human mythology and archaeological discoveries. Clearly ancient humans believed in mysterious Gods and highly intelligent beings visiting our world.

Every known culture today like Japan, America, India, Europe, Middle East, and from the past like the Greeks, the Romans, Mesopotamians and ancient Indians; have recorded in their history encountering “Gods” sent to influence or instruct the chosen people with secret knowledge and ideology. Evidence shows that these gods arrived from heaven in “chariots of fire” or “air-ships“, much like what we would call UFO’s today. In Val Camonica, Italy, the ancient inhabitants who lived in the valley from the Neolithic Period had left approximately 300,000 petroglyphs (rock carvings) of daily life dating back to 8,000 BC. Some petroglyphs illustrate strange beings floating with helmet-like gear on and this same type of rock carving can be seen all over the planet. Often legends and myth tell of strangers arriving in awesome ships of light or magical-power and resemble some of the same characteristics associated with close encounter of extraterrestrial beings.

Another interesting unexplainable clue is the Peruvian Nazca lines. From the air the lines (geoglyphs) appear like ancient runways and depicts huge figures that can only be identified in an airplane. Ancient astronaut theorist believe these God-like beings for whatever reason wanted to excel the primitive homo sapiens to a higher level of intelligence. Many ancient cultures postulate this idea that their “gods” created them and manipulated their race. The theorist further proclaim this fact as true, to help explain the sudden rise in human evolution over the past 200,000 years.

The most common belief is that humans are created in God’s image and this concept isn’t strange or new to us. This belief is ancient and connects us with God. But the ancient astronaut theory goes even further and states a much more common fear we face today: genetic manipulation.

Homo sapiens abruptly spring boarded forward on a evolutionary scale is well known in the scientific community. It is a strange fact but true nevertheless. But only today, in modern times, with our complete understanding of genetic engineering that we discover that it is possible to alter, manipulate, and control on a genetic level almost any living thing on the Earth. This could be extremely helpful in medical treatments and also highly unethical to alter nature. As a society we have just begun to fully comprehend how to manipulate DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid), a thought unheard of a century ago and only in the pages of science fiction novels. But the mere fact that most ancient cultures who encountered direct contact with their holy-deities, already knew about the genetic intervention done to them by these supernatural beings.

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Close to 500 million years ago, there was a large accumulation of oxygen in the atmosphere, an overabundance really, so as the land plants evolved, they pumped out huge amounts of waste products creating forest fires around the region. Interestingly enough, the population at the time grew a resistance to the pollution and learned to live among it.

However, close to one million years ago the majority of hominines’ were living in an area that was subject to extreme weather, so a method for producing and controlling fire had to take place. The use of “cool burn” allowed the inhabitants to cook their meals, as well as stay warm without the worries of the fire spreading.

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Research has found that two subfields of humans occurred close to 500,000 years ago. The Homosapiens arose in Africa, and the Neanderthals were found in the Middle East and parts of Europe.  After archaeologists found the remains of hiedelbergensis in the areas of Europe and Africa, they all agreed that the possibility of this species being an ancestor was highly likely. The remains found were studied and the conclusion was that both these subfields were artistic and fluent in the spoken language.

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The origination of music, as well as the instrument used, depended solely on the location or the region. The first instrument of voice was used to experiment in the way of melody. Naturally crafted instruments followed including flutes made out of sticks, shells, and tied up rocks for percussion.

Close to 37,000 years ago, the use of whistles, rasps, and flutes made of bone were in high circulation. In fact, there were close to 20 bone flutes found in Isturitz, a cave in the French Pyrenees, alluding to the evolution of the first concert hall.

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There is no concrete date as to when these weapons came about; however, what we do know is that they evolved into successful weaponry for hunters and societies. They were precise and accurate, which was not the case of thrown stones. It is said that these weapons evolved around the time of spear launchers, which was close to 16,000 years ago.

The bow and arrow has evolved over time, and up until now they are still used for sport and hunting.

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Oddly enough, most of the original abstract cave painting was on the outside of the cave itself. The most famous of art was the Venus women, sculpted with voluptuous hips and breasts and no head. The form recognized the women of their time and they were used as fetish pieces for fertility issues.

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The Nazca lines also came about at this time in history, representing what most people believe to be a temple or a celestial calendar.

When the Polynesians were discovered by the Europeans, they were intricately covered head to toe with geometric painted tattoos representing an abstract and intelligent mind.

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The pyramids in Egypt are unquestionably the most technologically advanced forms of architecture the world has ever seen. The construction was not seen as revolutionary by the individuals that created it, although by using the simplest tools and material, they were able to construct a building that was almost indestructible.

The Pyramid of Khufa is a shining example of precision, intended to stand for eternity. Arguably, Khufa is the largest and highest structure ever made by human hands. It covers over 13 acres and measures 481 feet high. Originally, its top was covered with solid gold, but over the years it has disappeared for unknown reasons.

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Around 3100 BCE, urban societies were emerging including the city of Aspero, Peru. Aspero consisted of interconnected pyramids and mounds. The society made use of trade and record keeping, and crafts like sewing and weaving. Very little is known about this particular culture, although researchers at the site have a “Maritime Foundations of Andean culture theory, which implies that the initial development of ancient Peruvian culture was based on seafood, rather than agriculture.”

Silk Made

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Silk was surfacing around 4000 BC in China by a rumored empress named Lei Zu. The highest quality silk was being engineered from the filaments of silkworm caterpillar cocoons.

“A couple years ago, archeologists discovered intricately woven and dyed silk textiles in a tomb in Jiangxi province, are dated to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, roughly 2,500 years ago. Although historians have suspected a long history of a formative textile industry in ancient China, this find of silk textiles employing “complicated techniques” of weaving and dyeing provides direct and concrete evidence for silks dating before the Mawangdui-discovery and other silks dating to the Han Dynasty (202 BC-220 AD).”

Migration to America

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Close to 25,000 years ago, a land mass called Beringia was located between Alaska and Siberia. It was used primarily as a bridge for societies and animals. Migration was limited to the surrounding areas, so when the North American glaciers started to melt, there were several open passageways to the South. What this means is that the first inhabitants of America could have arrived there by boat.

The First Pottery

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Incipient Jomon from Japan was the first rounded and pointed base pottery in 14th BC. These pots were used to consume or store food; however; during a roast they were easily placed in the ground to cook food.