Enlightenment and later thinkers often speculated that societies progressed through stages: that history, in other words, is stadial. These would show increasing development, and theorists looked for ...
Several centuries before Western civilisation developed sociology, the 14th-century Islamic scholar Ibn Khaldun concluded that societies are living organisms that, due to universal causes, experience ...
Anthropologists and sociologists often assume that human beings have natural social tendencies and that particular human social behaviours have non-genetic causes and dynamics (i.e. they are learned i ...
Sociocultural evolution, sociocultural evolutionism or cultural evolution are umbrella terms for theories of cultural and social evolution that describe how cultures and societies change over time. Wh ...
12,000 BC – Neolithic Revolution, the first agricultural revolution, begins in the ancient Near East12,000 BC – Natufians in the Levant begin harvesting wild grasses.9800 BC – Earliest evidence for ...
Identifying the exact origin of agriculture remains problematic because the transition from hunter-gatherer societies began thousands of years before the invention of writing.Anthropological and archa ...
