Honoring the Dead

Honoring the Dead

Homo heidelbergensis

The practice of paying respect to a
deceased person through specific rituals

It is difficult to pinpoint when the idea of honoring the dead began. There is some evidence to show that Homo heidelbergensis (who existed between 600,000 and 400,000 years ago) were the first proto-humans to bury their dead. Whether they honored their dead
Or ascribed some kind of spiritual aspect to the burial process is unknown, however. There are hUman burial sites from about 130,000 years ago that Show more convincing evidence that those performing the burial intended to remember or honor the deceased, through the position of the body, the inclusion of items such as tools and animal bones with the body, and the addition of decorative elements to the tomb. This suggestion of ritual in the burial process could indicate that it was
one of the first forms of religious practice.

In some cultures or traditions, honoring the deadis an ongoing practice in which deceased relatives or ancestors are viewed as having a continued presence among, or influence over, the living. in others, the traditions that honor the dead occur immediately after , someone’s death, or at various times throughout the year. Honoring the dead is not necessarily a religious tradition, though many religions have specific and
extensive rituals for the practice.

Honoring the dead is a near-universal practice that exists across geographical, cultural, and religious boundaries. The shared rituals involved in the custom
provide a social bond in societies, and a way to link the deceased with the living. These elements are strongly
present in many religious rituals, often forming the basis of individual, and cultural, identities.

"Our dead are never dead to us, "until we have forgotten them.”
George Eliot, Philosopher

Arvind Mathiyalagan
Subscribe our Channel

Beginning of Clothing - Evolution of Human on Earth | Arvind Mathiyalagan

Garments,fabrics, or other coverings worn by humans over their bodies
The materials that eary humans used to create the first do thing were probaby those the yfoundaround them, such as plable gases, plant leaves, and animal skins.Because these materials decomposes easly it is dificult to determine when humans frs created clothing.Researches studying human ice have suggested that dothing could have become widespread as early as 650000 years ago, while other studies suggest an origin of about 17000 years ago.These time periods corespond to either the beginning or the end of an ice Age indicating that clothing may have first developed as a way of coping with colder climates.

The first items of clothing were most probably fairly crude in their construction, draped around the body and tied with sinew.The development of the needle
around 35000 years ago by Homo sapiens alowed the creation of more complex clothing- garments that could be layered and tailored to fit certain parts of the body, I has been hypothesized that this technology mayhave been what enabled Homosapiens to flourish as a species over the Neanderthals, who were more adapted to the cold biologicaly and thus did not have the impetus to refine the cutting and sewing techniques that were needed for warmer clothes Athough clothing may have been created out of necesty initialy, it has since become farmore than a means of adaptation to the environment.Throughout history it has been used to protect a weare from the elements, but also as a way to convey nonverbal information, such as signaling differences in wealth class,sex or membership of a particular group.

Arvind Mathiyalagan 

Subscribe Our Channel 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW7_CcswP39nKe1iVyFojIQ

Human eats Human's Flesh | Cannibalism | Humans evolution of Earth | Arvind Mathiyalagan

The practice of humans eating the flesh of other humans. The earliest evidence of Cannibalism comes from butchered bones found in the Grand Dolina Cave in Spain, dating back to c. 800,000 BCE. These bones suggest that the practice existed among members of western Europe's first known human Species, Homo antecessor, and similar findings from later periods show that it continued with the emergence of Homo sapiens and other hominid species. There are several theories as to why cannibalism first arose: one hypothesis suggests that it may have been a result of
food shortages; another that it may have functioned as a form of predator control, by limiting predators' access
to(and therefore taste for) human bodies
Cannibalism persisted into modern times in
Westand_Central Africa, the Pacific Islands, Australia,Sumatra, North America, and South America. In some Cultures, human flesh was regarded as just another type of meat, In others, it was a delicacy for special occasions: the Maoris of New Zealand would feast on enemies slain in battle. In Africa, Certain human Organs
were cooked in rites of sorcery because witch doctors believed that victims' Strengths and virtues Could be transfered to those who ate their flesh. In central
America, the Aztecs are thought to have Sacificed
prisoners of war to their gods and then eaten their flesh themselves. Australian Aborigines ate their deceased relatives (endocannibalism) as a mark of respect.
The Colonization of these regions between the fifteenth and nineteenth Centuries by European Christians made cannibalism taboo However, it occasionally still occurs in extreme Circumstances.

"I ate his liver with some fava beans and
nice chianti"
-Thomas Harris, The silence of the Lambs (1988)

Arvind Mathiyalagan
Subscribe Our Youtube
Click Here

Human Control of Fire | Human's evolution on Earth - 1 | Arvind Mathiyalagan

Controlling fire has been a hallmark of human Culture since before the existence of modern Homo sapiens Early people obtained fire from natural sources,
later developing a variety of methods to create fire artificially, The ability to create, control, and use fire remains essential to human civilization,The first exposure that early humans had to fire most likely came from wild fires and forest fires Sparked by lightning.While destructive and potentially deadly they provided early access to the tool, although it was not a force that people could control, much less create at
will.There is evidence to show that as early as 1.6 million years ago Homo erectus groups had harnessed fire to some extent, and by 4000 to 250000 BCE there is clear evidence that Homo erectus could Control and perhaps even Create it By 125000 BCE, well after the emergence of modern Homo sapiens, human use, control, and Creation of fire were wide spread and common. Humanity's mastery of fire had an immediate and profound impact on its evolution. Fire gave people
protection from wild animals, allowed them to illuminate the darkness, gave warmth to fend of the cold, enhanced their abilty to fashion tools, gave them
the ability to cook food, and served as an effective deterrent against insects and pests, Fire was so useful in the preparation of food that humans became the only animal that could nutritionally thrive by eating cooked but not raw food. Fire's importance in culture is so marked that the word itself became a ubiquitous metaphor used to describe ideas such as romantic love conflict, destruction, and intense desire.

"Fire,though it may be quenched, will not become cool"
-Ovid,Ancient Rome Poet.

Arvind Mathiyalagan
Subscribe our YouTube

Click Here

3 Strange peoples Stories | Still Vampires are Alive | Tamil | Arvind Mathiyalagan

Subscribe our channel