Prehistoric Cultural Ages

Introduction

1. Genus Homo: Technology & Culture

• Hominid evolution
• Technology, culturally transmitted
• Culture fights for self-preservation
• Differentiating Child Protection from Culture Protection
• Species Preservation morphs into Preservation of Culture

2: Maternal Love binds the Tribe

• Maternal Love: the Seed of Human Emotions
• Disassociation of Sex and Procreation
• Wild Man, first domesticated Animal
• Couple Love
• Modern Implications of the Tribal Deal
• The Erosion of Traditional Gender Roles
• Techniques to break chains of cultural/genetic conditioning

3. Paleolithic: the 'Old' Stone Age

• History of the Ages of Humanity
• Paleolithic Stone Tool categories
• Fear of the Future: an innate feature of Humans

4. Homo Habilis, Erectus, & Sapiens

• Homo Habilis & Mode 1 Stone Tools – Choppers
• Diffusion vs. Structuralism
• Homo's taste for Meat provides Evolutionary Advantage
• Homo Erectus: Mode 2 Stone Tools, the Hand Ax, & Eco-Protection
• Longer Transmission Time provides Evolutionary Advantage
• Homo Sapiens & Mode 3, prepared core
• Homo Sapiens moves into the Northern Forests
• Homo Sapiens memorialized Death

5. Homo Sapiens Sapiens

• Regional & Cultural differentiation
• The Boredom Principle inspires Humans to Experiment & Travel
• Female Fertility Figurines emerge in Advanced Paleolithic
• Tree worship
• Reprogramming the destructive tendencies of Genus Homo

6: Mesolithic: Cultural Differentiation

• Standard Agri-Centric Characterization of the Mesolithic
• Age of Geographical Differentiation
• Age of Animal Domestication
• Cultural Ramifications of Animal Domestication
• Wolf-dogs – the free animals of the Hunter/Gatherer

7: Neolithic Farmers

• Age of Agri-cultures
• A Few Forces behind discovery of Agri-technology
• The Nesting Urge
• Middle Eastern Farming successful
• The Neolithic Hunter-Gatherer

8: Cultures on the Cusp

• The Pastoral Way of Life evolves into a Military Culture
• Unfortunate Dynamics from the Militarization of Culture
• Sex and War
• Farming Villages evolve into Prosperous Trade-based Agrarian Societies

9: Bronze Age Warrior Kings

• Taming the Metals of the Earth
• Beginning Bronze Age Misconceptions
• Beginning of Cultural Bronze Age
• The Inevitability of Pastoral Dominance

10: Redefining the Cultural Ages

• The Military Aristocracy of the Metal Ages
• Metal Age Civilization & the Fall of Human Rights