NATS 1745 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Denisovan, Deferent And Epicycle, Almagest
28 Nov 2014
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200 000 bc: the first hominid decided to migrate which suggests navigation and the use of maps. 1700 bc: they moved out of africa and met with other human groups that moved out of africa. They hominids fought with other hominids such as the: denisovans: resided in in asia, china. Asia to east and southern asia and australia: neanderthals: resided in eurasia, from western europe to central and northern. 50 000 bc: behavioural modernity began to emerge with music, language, and cultural events. 33k bc first evidence of astronomy from europe. Evidence are bones and modern interpretation can make sense of patterns. Involves planting and harvesting produce and husbandry of animals. Required measuring time to perform proper agricultural schedule. Everything that is related to time is an agreement between humans on natural occurrences. The first proto state was in mesopotamia and nile valley and indus valley.
