Second Cultural Development in Prehistory: Energetic Perspective

After the first cultural development which took place 40,000 years ago in Europe, the second one appeared across several regions of southwestern Asia about 12 to 10 thousand years ago. This stage is often named and recognized by titles such as the "Neolithic period", the "agricultural revolution", the "symbols revolution", etc., however, the contents of the development along with the causal factors have been much more diverse than such limited technical or behavioral areas. Traditionally, in the archaeology of the prehistoric periods, climatic-environmental factors are introduced as the main ones but the present challenges invoke a review on the subject. From the "Energetic Perspective", variables such as individual genetic limits, increased education motivation energy, education-motivation networks", a variety of influential trajectories, agent persons as well as physical conditions have played a role in the second cultural development.