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
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