Feasting Rituals Helps to Shape Human Civilization!

Editorials News | Sep-21-2019

Feasting Rituals Helps to Shape Human Civilization!

Both bread and wine are considered as the products of settled society. They hold the power of controlling nature and creating civilization and converting the wild into the domestic one and also the raw into the cooked 0ne. their rectification cannot be done easily. The very act of transforming the wild into the civilized one requires many people to work together for the system.

From the past few decades, archaeological theory has moved towards the idea that civilization raised up in different regions around the world. Archaeologists have also come across that the consumption of food and drink in formally suggested in times and places generally known as feasting. It is one of the keystones of intensified sociality throughout the history of human.
How complex society does develop from the hunter-gatherer bands and small settled villages that have controlled the globe into the early Holocene around 9,000 years ago? One such social organizations have developed, what kinds of mechanisms encourage these new societies effectively to develop into cities of this ancient world?
After the 30 years of research in the Titicaca Basin in the high Andes. A long-term archaeological research program has been started in the valley of Chincha in the south coast of Peru. These enable to put together a descriptive prehistory of the valley that originated several million years ago.
Geoglyphs modified that the landscape are still visible there, describing a path to where the sun sets in the summer solstice.
Above the valley, across the hyper-arid pampa lands, the Paracas peoples built linear Geoglyphs. These are the designs craved into the desert landscape lined up with small field stones. Five sets of such lines are condensed on the five major Paracas sites at the edge of the pampa.
It is concluded that these sites were the end marks of ritually significant social events that were timed by the solstices and possibly other astronomical phenomena.

By: Saksham Gupta
Content: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/feasting-rituals-crucial-step-toward-human-civilization-180969540/


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