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It’s fascinating human evolution: From primitive beings to the nations today we know. If you open this book up it’s like the most grand history book turned over on each page and told you how we took steps toward being great. Let’s dive into the 7 stages of human evolution—from the Stone Age to the rise of early civilizations.
- Primitive Beginnings: Understanding Primitive Definition
Some 2.5 million year ago humans were primitive animals, hence they are referred to as people of the Paleolithic Age. To grasp the “primitive definition,” it means something in its early or undeveloped state. These early hominins were living in the beginning living an all simple tools, hunting, and gathering life to survive.
Fun Fact: You know that there were stone tools already 3.3 million years old in Kenya. They were so basic they make modern kitchen knives look like space-age gadgets.
- Nomadic Lifestyle: Survival on the Move
Early humans led a nomadic lifestyle, constantly moving to follow food sources. Following domestication they hunted wild animals, gathered plants and lived in the temporary shelters. Fire became their greatest ally, offering warmth, cooked meals, and protection from ancient animals like saber-toothed tigers and woolly mammoths. - Community Development: Language and Prehistoric Art
However, when humans started to evolve they started to form communities and learn the first basics of language. Around 40,000 years ago, they began creating prehistoric art, such as cave paintings. They often included pictures of their world; hunting scenes their depictions of their environment, and sometimes animals?
Fun Fact: Some prehistoric artists may have chewed pigment-filled bones to spray paint onto cave walls. A literal blow of creativity!
- Agriculture: From the Nomadic through to the Settled.
About 10,000 years ago it is estimated that humans began to opt out of nomadic, hunting and gathering life and invent agriculture. We started crops and raised farms animals and built forever homes. It’s the first shift into community based on how we know it in 2018, not just for steady food supply, but to pay all a livable wage and center Peace, Creation, Justice and diversity. - Ancient Animals in Early Civilizations.
As civilizations formed, humans’ interactions with ancient animals evolved. All domesticated animals were bred in to work or as companions and hunted for food. The relationships themselves that were of such importance to all early cities, all early trade, would change regardless of whatever your politics were. - Prehistoric Art: The First Storytellers.
The rise of prehistoric art marked a significant cultural milestone. There was art, whether human hands or not, applied to whatever hand would suit human hands, art to believe and to think and anthropomorphic as you could get, sculpted figurines and cave murals. These works often featured depictions of ancient animals, showcasing their importance in survival and spirituality. - Bronze Age Innovations
Advanced technology jump in human kind was to jump the Bronze Age. Such was their better in war as better in making their homes and their tools of bronze, art indeed. The recorded innovations were brought to birth as was the empires, and they gave birth together.
Wrapping It All
The 7 stages of human evolution highlight humanity’s creativity, resilience, and resourcefulness. From living a nomadic lifestyle to creating breathtaking prehistoric art, each stage reflects the incredible progress we’ve made.
