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Inhumation ritual, Qafzeh Cave, Nazareth, Israel. A mother with his child (Homo sapiens, 90,000 – 100,000 BCE) (after HARROD, 2012).
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Before the appearance of Homo sapiens sapiens, some pre-human genotypes that lived on the Earth, left material evidence concerning different events of their social, behavioural or artistic manifestations. One of the earliest proofs is the use of objects from the environment as primitive tools to extract bone marrow, action probably achieved by a po...
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... was probably hand held. The ensemble from Bhimbetka was used by pre-humans as living space, providing protection and having many spiritual elements (Fig. 5). An early burial ritual of the species H. sapiens sapiens dating to 90,000-100,000 years ago was highlighted in the cave Qafzeh in Nazareth, Israel, where a mother and her baby were buried (Fig. ...
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... The man has experimented in abundance through the annals of the evolution (Mihaela, andGabriel, 2016: Lombard, andPhillipson, 2010). As a result, the production of the weapon is of vital importance irrespective of all experiments, since the historical man did not invent the weapon for battle but to earn the living (Blackmore, 2000). ...
... To verify this, it is important to examine the use of spears in different places in the world. Battle of Lagash vs Umma which is considered as the first recorded battle in military history and it has happened in around 2,450 BC (Gabriel andMetz, 1992: Grant, 2011). A stone work delineate that the use of spears by Sumerians as their main attacking weapon in the battle of Lagash (Grant, 2011). ...
World history and military history which are on par can be discussed neither analyzed individually when the bound historical events and wars are concerned. Therefore, the source of man-made weapons in the military history is often apparent to be connected with the quotidian routine of the ancient man. Ancient weapons used in the battles are recorded to have been manufactured in different parts of the world, but with many similarities seemingly. The man lived in different places worldwide as well as in different tribes in the bygone times. These tribes did not know each other nor did exchange their social knowledge or experiences. As such, it is astonishing the exhibited more or less similar thinking pattern by the ancient lived in never seen corners of the world. But, it really happened in world history. The Native Australians' Boomerang and the ancient Egyptians' Throwing Stick, Sword and the Macahuitl of which the sides are embedded with prismatic obsidian blades, the Native Americans' Gunstock and Native Samoans' War Club to be similar thinking patterns is illustrated here. In addition, the Indian katar which is a type of push dagger and the Native Americans' all-purpose knife Ulu are two hand held weapons which exhibit similar grasping. In this study, the researcher has studied about the evolution of primary weapons and then analyzed the above mentioned groups of weapons which display identical parallel thinking patterns of human beings.
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