From the Neolithic was not there to return back

any closer since their name comes from the site of La Gravette in Dordogne. Why homo sapiens does this set One feels that Jean Guilaine is poised to answer: "because her pleasure." Which, in more academic terms, gives: "it is probably the result of a cognitive evolution, intellectual maturation". In short, the main engine of the revolution would be to search for in the mental of homo sapiens evolution and not environmental logic. Domesticate animals implies a considerable change of vision of the world and oneself. "The man of the Paleolithic, the Hunter, herself as an animal among animals;" on the walls of caves, he draws and paints beautiful animals and wave sketches of man. As soon as it domestic animal, the dog, he adopts a vertical vision, in which he, man is at the top and he begins to understand that it can subject the nature. To 8500 8000, when mankind has domesticated animals and other plants, there are in the middle of the statues where he represents him, man, larger than life.

The logic of the novel does not really emphasizes these beliefs. For our pleasure is left to take, even if there is no great suspense it gives rather to discover technological and rational logic. Let's start with that of architecture. The group begins setting with its old round tents in skins of animals. Then one of its members embarked on an experiment. He stands with stone walls and poses on top, like a roof tent. Why do But to be able to keep upright at home course. The joys of camping have their limits.

Traditionalists will cling to this model of the Round House, like a tent. Only for dangerous revolutionaries will go build square or rather quadrangular, EC which assumes well to control the problem of the chaining of the angles. Why do Because the Round House is difficult to expand. It cannot be that he added other boxes that eventually form Hamlet as seen today in many African villages. Quadrangular room, it facilitates the separation of the internal spaces and the successive addition of other parts. And Golluk to comment on in the novel: "these young architects are all fools." If we let them do so, they will be able to build a day of deposits for several families or build homes in overlapping parts. "But ultimately this same Jean Guilaine, who trained us in any of the architectural logic is not absolutely sure that"the materialist explanation"is good for the passage to the square House. Perhaps they wanted houses square for psychological, aesthetic or spiritual reasons. How do I know The absence of written text is the "core team" of the prehistorian, he wrote in a preface to his trade.

The selection of the cereals

It is known however much, already. Laboratory techniques help the prehistorian to say a maximum to the product of his excavations on the ground. We know what cereals and legumes have been domesticated by our distant cousins the Tigris and the Euphrates. Wheat and barley existed in the wild, and some legumes, peas and lentils. The man gradually selected varieties of which the larger seeds remained on the spur at the top of the stems to maturity instead of being scattered and sown by the first gust came. In 2,000 years, the case was heard.

As regards animals oxen, sheep, goats , is not very clear if humans began to domesticate them for their meat or for their milk. The grouping of animals was undoubtedly conducive to the spread of diseases with perhaps, already, a few passages from animal to human. This is what suggests the novel with a certain "pastors disease." Other most surprising adverse once domesticated, the animals began to... shrink. Our ancestors were probably victims of some phenomena of inbreeding and mastered not yet very well the selection and improvement of the race.

It is known that Neolithic human moves. In the novel, to find that he loves, Loula, and escape the marriage arranged by the Chief, exogamique Nemo left his group and will find the traditionalists, taken by Golluk, on the island green stone, i.e. Cyprus. Prehistorians have that man was able to make this journey of 100 km at the time because they find the trace of the sudden appearance on the island of plants and animals that did not exist there. Searches allow also to verify that the most beautiful stones were, so were exchanged, sometimes very far from their place of extraction.

What is less known fault of writing, it is the manner in which the company prioritizes and invents a religion. Towards the end of the novel, Jean Guilaine imagine the leader of the Group remained on the continent, Mémet, who managed to build a sort of Palace where he throne with six women. Freedom writer. On the ground, there is at most that some homes are larger than others (places of worship Parley) and some more important than other villages. The novelist also imagine fortifications, as well on the "City" on the continent and around the village on Cyprus. To withstand a real threat or to mark the territory It is likely that once settled human communities have experienced a profound need for marking. This could be the essential function of the megaliths found still on our lands well following the intuitions of Jean Guilaine. Because, for what is of the walls and their defensive role, he does not want that is associated with its expensive Neolithic on the rise of violence generated by the property. that it opposed a prehistoric hunter-gatherers Eden to a Neolithic man who would himself out of Paradise by inventing the work and the war for the product of the work of others.

As Jean Guilaine has a high idea of our ancestors. This is the reason why he chose to speak like you and me instead invent them a "little nigger" Neolithic. His message so that there was one in a novel is simple. From the Neolithic was not there to return back. They are our ancestors and appear to be extraordinarily close to us despite the 10,000 years which separate us.