In today's scientific community there is no consensus as to when the world got the first old man.The entire catch is one of a series of concrete from our bipedal ancestors believed the man and what are the criteria: the volume of the brain, the availability of tools, the level of social organization, the development of other physiological parameters.Whatever it was, the old man has existed on the planet a very long period of time.Much longer than has our entire recorded history.
Paleolithic
This period can be considered the final formation of the first Homo sapiens, appeared in the Upper Paleolithic (50-10 thousand. BC. E.).Then they formed the tribal community that will give the first state.Develops primitive cultures, religious beliefs.An illustrative example is the rock painting of ancient man, reflecting his outlook.Perhaps the most well-known in this respect are the walls of the caves of Lascaux and Altamira, survived to modern days, amazingly eloquent paintings with scenes of social and spiritual life, hunting and so on.
Different humanity
interesting to note that in the Paleolithic, according to modern scholars, was presented several alternative branches of bipedal hominids.For example, the famous Neanderthal today is no longer considered to be an ancestor of modern man and a dead-end, extinct about 40 thousand years ago, a branch, just another humanity.Versions of why this old man, with a lot of technological advances, having mastered the craft of hunting, tamed fire, could not live up to our days, put forward a lot: from a mere failure to adapt to new environmental conditions and waste glaciers to the physical widespread destruction of Neanderthals our ancestors- Cro-Magnons.
emergence of the first civilizations
This latter species was able to not only successfully resist the forces of the natural environment, but also to tame her.A landmark event was the so-called Neolithic Revolution.This definition marks the transition from appropriating natural economy, ie hunting and gathering to food production - cattle breeding and cultivation of useful plants.The fact that the old man has learned to not just take what nature gives him, but also to create their own food and labor predestined fundamental transformation of our planet.Go to the producing economy will forget about the painful problem of hunger, the first permanent settlements - ancient towns and villages.Previously, the limitations of the hunting areas and the diversity of fauna in their natural imposes a limit on the number of human communities.Increasing labor productivity, which is now characterized by agriculture, has led to a significant increase in the number of tribes, specialization of labor, social stratification, the first property rights.Of course, all this could not but lead to the creation of the first states in the world in 7-6 millennia BC.The people of ancient Egypt, India, Mesopotamia States already had developed social systems, cultural and religious world, economic and political unit.The history of mankind has begun.
