Richard Wrangham, “Catching Fire”, 2009, PART TWO (II).

 

Richard Wrangham, “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us  Human”, 2009 was the topic of an earlier blog post.

Jean Bottero, ‘The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia’, 2011 also was the topic of an earlier blog post.

Here I present: Richard Wrangham, “Catching Fire”, 2009, PART TWO (II).

INTRODUCTION.

Reading began in Prehistory as the “recognition” of numeral patterns in Sumerian cuneiforms as language ideas.  Cuneiforms are numbers (1,2,3 impressions in clay tablets).  The different patterns of cuneiforms are sentences.

The “Fusiform Gyrus” depiction ABOVE is the “reading recognition” tissue of the­ human brain.  The earliest evidence we have the “socio-culture” materialization of the “Fusiform Gyrus” genotype is in 3,500 BC Mesopotamia’ readings that have been deciphered.  The most populous cities of prehistory are listed BELOW; and Uruk, Mesopotamia’ is the center of a prehistoric “Agricultural Revolution” in the “Fertile Crescent”.  The populations of human settlements reached 1,000 people in 7,000 BC in the “Fertile Crescent”; but the “reading phenotype” of    Sumerian cuneiform writing allowed the “agricultural society” of the city of Uruk, Mesopotamia’ to reach 80,000 people in 2,800 BC.  Other people from Egypt to Ukraine borrowed the Mesopotamian’ socio-culture pattern to create the “Urban Revolution” of architectural city building. The “Urban Revolution” was architectural settlements in permanent locations.