history and society

Challenge the belief in this as a special time when technology changed.

This post is under construction I apologise for the lack of progress on this post. I started off thinking I understood the issues and it wou...

It is conventional to divide prehistory into stone, bronze and iron ages. In modern times, this scheme is attributed to Christian Jürgensen ...

We need a measure of technological sophistication. Technology changes through history, and technological sophistication is closely related t...

In Works and Days , the ancient Greek poet Hesiod wrote that history began with a golden age, which was followed by a silver age, a bronze ...