The beginning of Chinese civilization

Antiquity ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 47 (187) ◽  
pp. 197-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chêng Tê-K'un
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
The Third ◽  
Continuous Sequence ◽  
The World ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Third Millennium Bc ◽  
Historical Times ◽  
The Creation

The origins of man and the beginnings of culture in China were taken for granted in traditional Chinese history. Man was either simply evolved in the creation of the world or created by supernatural beings. In historical times all the peoples of China were recognized as the descendants of Huang-ti, the Yellow Emperor, and the basic cultural practices were attributed to the various rulers in remote antiquity. They formed a continuous sequence with its beginnings in the third millennium BC, followed by a succession of dynasties for some 5,000 years until the present day.

scholarly journals Żywe strefy wyobraźni. Przyjmowanie gości jako praktyka oporu

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-23
Author(s):  
Adam Pisarek
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Considerable Degree ◽  
A Value ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Order ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Polish Culture ◽  
Important Basis

This article concerns “living zones of the imagination”—areas of social life in which intensive “interpretive labor” is underway. Thanks to these zones, it is possible to engage in universally accepted exercises that enable a person to “see the world through the eyes of another person” and that yet do not disturb the current socio-cultural order. They provide an important basis for understanding among people, for harmonizing meanings in the sphere of social realities, and for integration that goes beyond certain permanent boundaries and hierarchies. The basic aim of the article is to prove that hospitality, understood as a value in Polish culture, could contribute to a considerable degree to the creation of such zones. The author analyzes the zones’ character, function, and meaning, paying attention to how they resist the expansion of bureaucratic ways of organizing social life. He also draws attention to the influence that an axio-normative pattern could havewithin specific models of behavior and cultural practices.

Raw Material and Technological Changes in Ceramic Productions at Sai Island, Northern Sudan, from the Seventh to the Third Millennium BC

Archaeometry ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. D'Ercole ◽  
G. Eramo ◽  
E. A. A. Garcea ◽  
I. M. Muntoni ◽  
J. R. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Raw Material ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Third Millennium Bc

The Dawn of Civilization

2018 ◽  
pp. 234-263
Author(s):  
Kevin N. Laland
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Slow Rate ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Morphological Evolution ◽  
Biological Evolution ◽  
Genetic Evolution ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Adaptive Challenges

This chapter traces the evolution of human civilization from nomadic hunter-gatherer societies to the advent of agriculture and its large-scale impacts on the world. It describes this history in three ages of adaptive evolution. First, there was the age in which biological evolution dominated, in which we adapted to the circumstances of life in a manner no different from every other creature. Second came the age when gene–culture coevolution was in the ascendency. Through cultural activities, our ancestors set challenges to which they adapted biologically. In doing so, they released the brake that the relatively slow rate of independent environmental change imposes on other species. The results are higher rates of morphological evolution in humans compared to other mammals, with human genetic evolution reported as accelerating more than a hundredfold over the last 40,000 years. Now we live in the third age, where cultural evolution dominates. Cultural practices provide humanity with adaptive challenges, but these are then solved through further cultural activity, before biological evolution gets moving.

Early Cycladic fortified settlements: aspects of cultural continuity and change in the Cyclades during the third millennium BC

2017 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 131-150
Author(s):  
Anastasia Angelopoulou
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Scientific Interest ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
The Third ◽  
Analytical Studies ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Third Millennium Bc ◽  
New Evidence

Early Cycladic culture (third millennium BC) has been a focus of scientific interest since the late 19th century. Our knowledge of Early Cycladic civilization is based primarily on evidence gathered from a substantial number of cemeteries that have been discovered in various parts of the Cyclades. In comparison, excavations of Early Cycladic settlements are few in number. Thus, habitation comprises an essential yet understudied field of research.Despite these limitations, fieldwork as well as material and analytical studies conducted over the period 2000–2017 have contributed to a far better understanding of Early Cycladic habitation patterns. Excavations and/or publications of important sites, such as Chalandriani and Kastri on Syros, Skarkos on Ios, Dhaskalio and Kavos on Keros, Markiani on Amorgos and Korfari ton Amygdalion (Panormos) on Naxos, have revealed significant new evidence regarding the development and character of Early Cycladic civilization.

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