The Upper Paleolithic is considerably complicated lifestyles of people developing operation of the primitive community. Separate groups of Neanderthals were likely to be alien and even hostile to each other. Of great importance for the rapprochement of different groups was to have the appearance of exogamy, the prohibition of marital relations within the family and […]

There can be no doubt that the labor and progressive. Development society causes a corresponding progressive change in consciousness, in the thinking of primitive man. There idealistic theories that try to prove that the mind of primitive man was supposedly thoroughly irrational and mystical that our ancestors were supposedly entirely false, is fundamentally wrong, totally […]

Co-employment, general housing, the overall fire warms its inhabitants – all this with a natural need to unite and bring people together. On the strengthening of social ties caused by the need to bring people together to deal with nature, clearly demonstrate the whole situation Mousterian settlements, all their culture, all traces of their activities, […]

Culture angelic type is replaced by a new culture, the Mousterian (Moustier – a cave on the banks of the Weser river, in France, where parking ancient people were found, the so-called Neanderthals, more advanced and had more advanced equipment than the most ancient people the beginning of the Lower Paleolithic including synanthropes 100 -40 […]

Development of thinking, thus, cannot be considered independently of the development of speech. Language and thought from the beginning grew at the same work the soil, were in close connection and interaction with each other. Language fixes and records the results of the thinking and enables the exchange of ideas, which is indispensable to social […]

Collectives Sinanthropus and, obviously, their immediate predecessors qualitatively different from those organizations, which are peculiar to the animal, the GTR was not a herd of monkeys, a human association, although still very primitive. We cannot clearly imagine the internal structure of these ancient associations, as ethnographers do not know anything like the condition of the […]

Of great importance are the findings of the remains of Sinanthropus close to the creatures in other countries. These are the teeth, found in 1948 in the north of Vietnam, similar to the teeth Sinanthropus; two jaw close to the jaw Heidelberg man, discovered in 1949 and 1950. Swartkrans cave, in southern Africa; molar tooth […]

For a long time, it was not known, however, the appearance of the person Acheulian pores. The only European discoveries (we are referring to the so-called Heidelberg jaw, found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany, – whence comes its name), concerning about this period, it was not enough to determine the shape of human Acheulian pores. […]

Further development of labor is reflected in the improvement of stone tools and technology for their manufacture. Wherever there are tough Chellean guns in their place there are new, more thoroughly and expertly made – Acheulean (named for the place of their first discovery in St. Ashely (a suburb of the city of Amiens in […]

To imagine the conditions in which there was a man Chellean period should pay attention primarily on the animal remains found during excavations with Chellean instruments or deposits, where such weapons are found. In France, it was the southern animals proglacial distant past – a hippopotamus, ancient elephant with straight tusks, rhinoceros Merck, Stenon horse, […]