Tip 1: Beauty of the Ancient World
Tip 1: Beauty of the Ancient World
All peoples have their own concept of beauty. This primarily relates to belonging to a particular race, culture, territory, the age of people's lives. What are the differences of modern beauty from the concepts of beauty of ancient peoples?
In Egypt, the benchmark beauty and attractiveness were considered slendergirls with almond-shaped eyes, big eyes, like felines. To give the eyes such a shape, the Egyptians rounded their eyes with black or green paint. To give the eyes expressiveness and brightness in them dripped the juice of the plant - belladonna. Green color was very popular in ancient Egypt, they were painted with feet and nails on hands, and eyes of green color were considered the most attractive. It was from Ancient Egypt that fashion began to paint eyes.
In Ancient China ideal was a fragile, short-haired woman withsmall foot size. In order for the girl to be attractive, the child in the childhood was tightly bandaged feet so that they ceased to grow. It was believed that a woman with black teeth looks more attractive, because of this Japanese women painted their teeth with black paint.
The standard of beauty in Ancient Greece served as a figure of Aphrodite. Parameters of Aphrodite: breast volume - 89 cm, waist - 68 cm, hips - 93 cm. There was a cult of the trained body. Beautiful were the big eyes and straight nose.
In ancient Rome there was a fashion for light, curly hair, pale skin. It was there that they first began to discolor hair.
In Ancient India women wore rings in their noses, thereby showing that a woman has a husband, a lord.
Some standards of beauty amaze the modernthe human psyche. For example, residents of the African tribe Mursi specifically pulled the lower lip, pulling out their lower teeth, they inserted a plate in the hole in the lip, increasing gradually its size. It is also common to file teeth to give them a sharp shape.
In the tribes of Africa the most common are tattoos. Symbolic signs were located throughout the body. They learned to which tribe a man belongs. The standard of beauty in Africa was also a long neck, up to thirty centimeters. From an early age girls were put around their necks on the neck and gradually, as they grew older, rings were added, stretching their necks more and more. Even if the girl was suffocated, only the elder in the male line could take them off. Removed the ring only on the wedding night.
Tip 2: How the Ancient Man Looked
Ancient people are extensible. It can be a representative of the first anthropoid monkeys that appeared on Earth about thirty million years ago, it is considered a direct ancestor of modern people. The common name of Neanderthals - paleanthropines - is translated as "ancient people". Also ancient people can be called the first individuals of the genus homo sapiens, that is Cro-Magnon.
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Anthropoid apes inhabiting Africatens of millions of years ago, did not differ much from modern anthropoid monkeys - their brain size, mode of movement and way of life did not allow them to be called full-fledged people. The first transitional forms of the so-called higher primates, which have already begun to acquire human signs, appeared about four million years ago - they are Australopithecus, they can be called with dint of ancient people. They looked almost like real monkeys - completely covered with hair, with the lower part projecting forward, very low and wide brow ridges, a small brain.
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But Australopithecus could walk on two legs,had a structure of the pelvis that was different from monkeys, allowing to move straight. These ancient ancestors of people were below modern representatives of the human race: they did not reach more than one hundred and forty centimeters in height, were slender and light. Despite their upright stance, they leaned heavily forward when walking, and their hands were hanging below their knees.
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Neanderthals, although not considered to be direct ancestorsmodern man, still have many similarities with him. In addition, according to scientists, representatives of this species interbred with the first individuals of a reasonable person, so we are also related to them. Neanderthals, or paleanthropes, appeared about five hundred thousand years ago. They were taller than the first anthropoid apes, and reached one hundred and sixty-five centimeters in height.
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The Neanderthals had a massive figure and verylarge head compared with the body. They possessed powerful muscles and a strong skeleton. Unexpressed chin and powerful superciliary arches in combination with a wide nose made their faces unlike the faces of modern people, but their bodies had already lost most of their hair, the brain was sufficiently developed, and in general they had a lot of similar to a reasonable person.
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The first representatives of a reasonable person who livedabout forty thousand years ago, are called Cro-Magnon people. These ancient people almost did not differ from our contemporaries - they had high growth, reaching a meter and eighty centimeters, a broad face with a straight forehead, a prominent chin and a low nose. Suprabral ridges, like those of the human ancestors, were no longer present in the Cro-Magnons. The reconstruction of the appearance of ancient representatives of homo sapiens on the skulls shows that outwardly they are almost indistinguishable from modern people.
