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#1 The first wheels were used for turning clay pots and were later attached to axles to improve the efficiency of moving across dry ground for agriculture and warfare. The first great breakthrough in communication happened nearly two million years earlier when our distant ancestors developed a larynx position lower in the throat than other primates.
#2 The intelligence of Palaeolithic Man was not surprising, as he has not changed significantly as a species for well over 100,000 years. We must also remember that while most of us have lives that have been shaped by the technological revolution, there are some groups of people around the world who still live as simple hunter-gatherers in a genuinely Stone Age existence.
#3 The first form of writing that is generally accepted as such emerged more or less at the same time as the wheel. The Egyptians developed their earliest hieroglyphic system very shortly afterwards, just when Upper and Lower Egypt were united into a single kingdom.
#4 The principle that underlies standard academia today is called stepping stone logic. It encourages deductive reasoning, but it can blind the researcher to factors that are outside their expectations.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	12 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798822507197
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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The first wheels were used for turning clay pots and were later attached to axles to improve the efficiency of moving across dry ground for agriculture and warfare. The first great breakthrough in communication happened nearly two million years earlier when our distant ancestors developed a larynx position lower in the throat than other primates.

#2

The intelligence of Palaeolithic Man was not surprising, as he has not changed significantly as a species for well over 100,000 years. We must also remember that while most of us have lives that have been shaped by the technological revolution, there are some groups of people around the world who still live as simple hunter-gatherers in a genuinely Stone Age existence.

#3

The first form of writing that is generally accepted as such emerged more or less at the same time as the wheel. The Egyptians developed their earliest hieroglyphic system very shortly afterwards, just when Upper and Lower Egypt were united into a single kingdom.

#4

The principle that underlies standard academia today is called stepping stone logic. It encourages deductive reasoning, but it can blind the researcher to factors that are outside their expectations.

#5

The tepee method is a multi-dimensional approach to logical deduction that requires each piece of evidence to be examined in its own right and not forced to conform to any preconceived notion of what should be. It allows each strand of evidence to be considered a potential supporting stick if and only if there are eventually enough of them that work together.

#6

The Great Wall of History has distorted the way we view the past by telescoping events so that the Egyptian civilization is thought of as being extremely distant, when in reality, it was extremely recent.

#7

The Neolithic Revolution, which began about 12,000 years ago, saw the birth of the first farmers who tilled the soil, planted, watered and harvested their crops. They were crude and unsophisticated because they existed on the dark side of the Great Wall of History.

#8

The Megalithic builders were a culture that existed in parts of Europe from the fifth to the fourth millennia BC. They built giant stone monuments, and left very little else to tell us about their lives and beliefs.

#9

The Megalithic people, who lived across Europe, had a significant interest in astronomy. They spent a lot of time observing the movements of the heavens. Newgrange in Ireland, for example, was constructed to allow the light of Venus to penetrate a central chamber once every eight years on the winter solstice.

#10

Alexander Thom was a pioneer of archaeoastronomy, the study of ancient sites and their alignments with the stars. He realized that the designers and builders of these sites were very capable engineers, and he tried to imagine what their plan had been.

#11

The Megalithic builders were a stroke of genius by Thom. He developed a total empathy with them, and was able to predict the location of missing stones. He was not limited to the number of similar excavations that standard archaeologists were doing at the time.

#12

The engineer Alexander Thom found that the units of measurement used in prehistoric sites across Britain were extremely precise, and he named them Megalithic Yards. He found that these Yards were equal to 2. 722 feet +/– 0. 002 feet.

#13

The central ruler factory theory is not the only explanation for the existence of the Megalithic Yard. It is also difficult to explain why these early communities wanted to work to an exact standard unit.

#14

The Megalithic Yard is a unit of measurement that Thom claimed was used by the builders of many prehistoric stone circles.

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