Gotûbêj:Pêşdîrok

Intro

Silav GPinkerton I want to add one or two more lines to improve the introduction but I just can't think of anything and en.wiki is of no help. Any ideas if you have time, please?--Balyozxane (gotûbêj) 23:11, 11 hezîran 2021 (UTC)

Silav Balyozxane I like what is there already, but I would mention the major changes from "inventions". The main ones to mention would be domestication in Western Asia/Eastern Europe of animals (dog, horses, then sheep, goats and cattle) and plants (wheat and the other cereals) and the first gatherings of humans into cities. Domestication of other plants and a few other animals (think llamas) on other continents should also be mentioned. Maybe art and music can be mentioned (e.g.: the cave paintings and carvings, the shell necklaces, Stonehenge), because we know they existed then. Maybe some prehistoric civilizations can be mentioned: the Indus Valley civilization, the early period of ancient Egypt, the Olmecs perhaps, the Minoans, prehistoric China, the prehistoric Mesopotamians, the Polynesian colonization of the Pacific. Before that a mention of the basic sequence of technological developments in prehistory: stone, copper/copper-and-bronze, and so on (this is already mentioned lower down), and a brief mention of how the West came to divide the world into tool Ages in the beginnings of 19th-century archaeology . It's important that ceramics began to exist, since ceramic sequences are essential in lots of archaeology, and IDK, weaving? Warfare? Precious metals? International trade? There are some interesting ideas here and here. Most language families have lineages that go back to prehistory. It would also be good to say something about evolution and the extinction of the other human species and subspecies. Climate changes in prehistory? Glaciation cycles? Animals that co-existed with humans in prehistory that are now extinct? (Mammoths, moas, aurochs) It's difficult, Prehistory has such a wide definition and includes so and it's a bit outside my area. I would find a way of mention in oral history, culture, and religion as well (e.g. en:Venus figurine, en:Lion-man, en:Dancing Girl (sculpture)), and generally emphasize that prehistoric people were not idiots like in cartoons. You might find en:A History of the World in 100 Objects (that page, but also the programme itself) useful for inspiration of what topics to include. Sorry that's not very structured. The lead in general should just quickly summarize the rest of the article. GPinkerton (gotûbêj) 23:50, 11 hezîran 2021 (UTC)

On a separate note: Chalcolithic could be better transcribed as "Xalkolîtîk" (like Russian: халколит; from χαλκός) rather than "Kalkolîtîk".

I would also argue for "X" and not "K" in "chronology" (xronolojî, dendroxronolojî, from χρόνος), "archaic" (arxaîk) and "archaeology" (arxaîolojî, arxaîastronomî, all from ἀρχαϊκός), where these arise for the first time. Paleolîtîk might perhaps be "Palaîolîtîk" (from παλαιός). GPinkerton (gotûbêj) 00:36, 12 hezîran 2021 (UTC)