Change is Constant - The Story of Human Evolution

“Change is the only constant” as the famous saying goes. This comes with the words like evolution and adaptation. Catch words that also bring fear of extinction, the end of old and rustic. 

What was the Neolithic Revolution?

Mankind achieved tremendous leaps and bounds that built the modern world. Easier connection, taller buildings, and greater food choices have been a far cry from where civilization took its roots during the Neolithic Age and the Revolution born on that period.

The Neolithic Jericho

Jericho held the title of the longest inhabited settlement in history. It turned into a legend after its walls came tumbling down through the sounds of trumpets of Joshua and the Israelites. Since then it became a place of pilgrimage and later on of further study for development of humanity during the Neolithic Age.

Jericho, 1931

Tell Abu Hureyra: A Neolithic Community Beneath a Lake

The Neolithic Age saw humanity’s great leap forward in its history. Agriculture, animal domestication, and sedentary living developed resulting to the foundations of future civilizations. In the Levant, Abu Hureyra provided one of the largest site to serve as a window during this revolutionary period.

Catal Hoyuk: The First City of the World?

The Neolithic Age saw humanity’s great leap forward in its history. Agriculture, animal domestication, and sedentary living developed building the foundations of future civilizations. In Asia Minor, Çatalhöyük have been the most famous example of Neolithic settlement in the region.

Prehistoric Japan: Yayoi Culture

Dotaku 
(Credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Japan is an archipelago in the eastern part of Asia. It is widely known as the Land of Rising Sun. The people of Japan believed that they and their islands were made by the gods, Izanagi and Izanami. In archaeological perspective, Japanese civilization began with prehistoric small cultures, such as the Jomon Culture. Later on, with immigrants from China and Southeast Asia came, the Jomon was succeeded by the Yayoi culture.

Prehistoric Japan: Jomon Culture

Dogu

Japan is an archipelago in the eastern part of Asia. It is widely known as the Land of Rising Sun. The people of Japan believed that they and their islands were made by the gods, Izanagi and Izanami. In archaeological perspective, Japanese civilization began with prehistoric small cultures, such as the Jomon Culture.

Prehistoric China: Yangshao Culture

Pottery Basin of Yangshao (Credits: Cultural China)

China boast a civilization that traced back more than a millennia - a cycle of dynasties rose and fell. But before this era of Emperor a handful of cultures once inhabited China’s provinces. The Yangshao Culture belonged to these handful of cultures that shed light to the life in China during the Neolithic Age.

Prehistoric China: Longshan Culture

Longshan Pottery
(Credit: Akorra)

Before the emergence of the dynasties, several cultures flourished in the lands of modern day China. The Yangshao Culture thrived in the central plains, while in the Northeast China, the Longshan (Lung-shan) Culture developed and expanded to neighboring regions.