The history of doors. The Stone Age

I don't know who you are, my dear reader. Maybe you are lying on the couch with a laptop on your stomach and, sipping beer from a can, lazily flipping through websites in search of something interesting.

You found what you were looking for.

Get off the couch, or just look around.

What do you see? Wherever you are, in a warm and cozy house, in the cockpit of an airplane, car, spaceship, in a deep air defense bunker, the exact location of which is unknown to you, you see everywhere, but, of course, you do not notice the DOOR.

Meanwhile, this is one of the oldest inventions of mankind. It is older than the Wheel, which, according to Ray Bradbury, was the cause of the development of civilization and led to a nuclear war.

When Homo Habilis roamed the plains of Africa, he was, of course, a gatherer and completely dependent on the mercy of predators. The inhabitants of Rapa Nui, who considered their Easter Island the only one, slept huddled in a ball, clutching a sharpened piece of stone in their hand, ready to wake up at any second and repel any enemy that creeps up in the darkness of the night. And the distant ancestors behaved exactly the same way.

But in his wanderings, man gradually reached the caves. It was quieter in the caves, but the twilight of the night "looked at them from the open mouth of the cave" By this time, man was threatened not only by wild animals, but also by spirits created by his imagination.

Huddled around a campfire, peering into the darkness of the entrance, clutching weapons in their hands, primitive people felt helpless before the dangers of the night.

But one of them, maybe not the most seasoned warrior, stood up, called his tribesmen and TOGETHER they rolled up a hefty stone and closed the entrance to the cave. This was the first step towards civilization.

Safety is what this first door promised, but the most important thing that the inventors of the door did not even realize was that they started working in a team.

Homer, in his immortal Odyssey, gave us a magnificent picture of how the cyclops Polyphemus, who clearly had no enemies comparable to him in strength, closed the entrance with a titanic stone to save precious sheep, which all together Odysseus' companions could not move.

But Polyphemus was alone. Nearby, his tribesmen lived in other caves, but Polyphemus did not need them. He didn't have the skill to work together. The image of Polyphemus may be inspired by vague memories of megapithecines – huge creatures under three meters tall, with indestructible muscles, the true kings of mountainous areas.

But they were wandering alone and where are they? All that remains of them are the teeth that paleontologists find. Teeth are bigger than a horse's.

And the weakness of a person, how many times did it help him.

Joint work, including closing the "doors" in the cave, developed the human brain, the ability to communicate, work in a team.

Culture began to flourish in the caves. More children began to survive, who could no longer be reached by predators, the elderly survived, carrying the most invaluable thing – knowledge, and "the one who owns information owns the world."

Masterpieces of culture have been preserved in the caves for centuries, the famous drawings in the caves of France and Spain are still amazing today.

A person had leisure and began to create not only "choppers", - roughly beaten stones, Neolithic culture flourished.

For centuries, people have lived in these caves, the ash layer is measured in meters.

And we can say without exaggeration that the door gave birth to civilization and allowed humanity to spread all over the globe. Ramenbet oynamaya başlamak için, bağlantımızı takip ederek resmi web sitesini ziyaret edin. Ardından, sayfanın sol üst köşesindeki “Kayıt Ol” butonuna tıklayın ve formu doldurun.