Chapter Twenty-Six: The Great March of Late Homo Sapiens

readx;? Extra-clan marriage is a major progress in the history of human marriage relations, and it has far-reaching significance compared with peer marriage under the endogamy system. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThe law of evolution of all things in nature is natural selection, survival of the fittest. Clans that practice exogamy have high IQs and strong physiques, and their overall strength is significantly better than that of blood families that still practice endogamy. In the process of social development at that time, it played an indisputable leading role.

The matrilineal clan system prohibits internal marriage, and clan members engage in group marriages outside the clan. Because of the practice of extra-clan marriage, children follow their mothers, and it is a country without a father and a husband. The wife and husband live separately in their respective matrilineal clans, and marital life takes the form of the husband visiting the wife, the children live from the mother's house, belong to the mother's clan, and the lineage and property inheritance are counted from the matrilineal line. In the prosperous period of the matrilineal clan (year), due to the emergence and gradual consolidation of the marriage of the couple, the husband moved to the wife's clan to live with the wife.

Walking marriage, which means walking back and forth. That is, the man does not marry, the woman does not marry, the woman and the man produce and live in their respective matrilineal families for life, the two parties have no necessary family economic relationship except for the love relationship, and the children follow the mother, live in the woman's house, and are raised by the woman's family members. The man gives help and care according to his financial ability. After the marriage relationship between the woman and the man is established, the man usually goes to the woman's house for the night after completing the day's work, and then returns to his home early in the morning to start a new day's work. The relationship between the two parties is based on pure feelings, with a high degree of freedom, low pressure, weak stability, and the concept of monopoly and subordination is difficult to conceive. Once the relationship breaks down, divorce is free, children follow their mothers, and there are no property disputes, and there is generally no hostility because of this.

Characteristics of walking marriage:

(1) Not necessarily living together (most of the parties still live in their mother's house)

(2) Non-economic communities

(3) It is not a basic unit of society (the mother's house is)

(4) Not from the beginning

(5) **** non-exclusive

(6) Indefinite birth mother residence system (women and men live together, and they do not necessarily take care of only their biological children, but most of them also take care of nieces and nephews)

(7) No legal contract

Attention to the privacy of walking marriage: There is only one kind of privacy in the culture of walking marriage, that is, sexual issues related to blood relatives - you can bathe women and men in the hot springs calmly, but you can't mention any sex-related topics with your family;

Shyness is a cultural mechanism to strictly prevent incest, and matrilineal people have particularly strict control over incest, and relatives are not allowed to marry within five generations.

The culture of shyness prohibits blood relatives from getting married, and even prohibits any sexual topics in language, and this strong defense mechanism makes children have a strong sense of morality from an early age, and the mention of sex in front of blood relatives makes it difficult for blood relatives to have sexual relations.

The culture of shyness is not aimed at sex per se, but at the incest taboo, and it is not the relationship between women and men that is avoided, but the sexual relationship between blood relatives. Therefore, the relationship between the woman and the married woman and the man is not affected by the culture of shyness, and the relationship between ordinary friends is not affected by it.

In this form of group marriage, children are still only recognized by their biological mothers and have no fathers, and the lineage of clan members can only be determined by maternal lineage. A number of descendants born to the same grandmother form a clan. Because of the practice of visiting marriage, the divorce between women and men, and the return of men from dusk to morning, children generally do not confirm their biological fathers. Children are raised by the mother, and the father has no authority to support the child. The Father and the Son are not of the same kinship, and therefore have no common blood ties in the lineage, and even when they meet, they are like strangers. Matrilineal descent is the bond that holds the clan alive. After the clan expanded, it was separated and a new clan was formed. Clans that intermarry with each other form tribes.

Blood ties serve as the bonds that bind clan members together, protecting each other and dividing labor according to gender and age. Young men perform tasks such as hunting, fishing, and defending against wild animals, women do heavy tasks such as gathering food, barbecuing food, sewing clothes, and raising the old and young, and the elderly and children perform auxiliary work.

In matriarchal societies, women were much more productive than men, and prehistoric men began to search for the dead bodies of animals, often leaving empty-handed. Only later did he learn to hunt. But there are often heavy casualties. Women collect 80% of their food, mainly plants and animals (including reptiles, birds, insects, etc.). Basically, it was a time when women fed the whole tribe, and the greatest job of men was to protect the tribe. From the division of labor, it is not difficult to see that the harvest of gathering activities is more stable than that of fishing and hunting activities, and can provide a living for the members of the clan. The duties performed by women are of a more stable nature than those of hunting by men, and they are a more reliable source of livelihood, which is of great significance. And hunting is not a job only for men, and women who have no children and have children will also go hunting. They are important members of the clan organization, their activities are for the benefit of the clan collective, have important social significance, and play an extremely important role in maintaining the survival and reproduction of the clan, therefore, women occupy an important position in the clan commune and are generally valued. The main thing that affects women the most is that women have to deal with childbirth, and childbirth often leads to death, and many mothers die in difficult childbirth.

In the late Paleolithic period, Late Homo sapiens surpassed Homo sapiens in stone civilization and social organization forms, and began to go out of Africa to challenge Neanderthals, who dominated Eurasia. Not only did it attack the Arabian Peninsula by its traditional routes, but it also challenged the seas by building wooden boats, and its route was largely along the coastline. Stone tools from North Africa quickly began to spread throughout Eurasia with the footsteps of Homo sapiens in the late years as they left Africa. Neanderthals, on the other hand, were self-assured of their strong physique, often used to fight alone, and their teamwork level remained at the primitive human stage of a few dozen people, unable to resist the group attacks of late Homo sapiens in the matrilineal clan commune stage.

The early continental Homo erectus was largely replaced by Neanderthals, and only the inaccessible Javanese Homo erectus became the surviving Homo erectus because of its island dwelling.

At this time, Homo sapiens arrived on the island in a wooden boat, and the Homo erectus on the island was destroyed. Only some of the Homo erectus who were hiding in the deep caves on the island survived, but due to their life in hiding and malnutrition, they became very short and their brain size was greatly reduced, some of them resembled the hobbits in the movies. Some survived until the 17th century, when the last Homo erectus gnomes were hunted down and burned at the stake by the island's necturing natives because of their ugly looks.

A large number of late Homo sapiens migrated to Taiwan, Southeast Asia, South China, and finally North China through the island of Java as a springboard. Exterminate or deport the original Neanderthals and surviving Homo erectus to the bitter cold of the northern part of the continent. Some humans were assimilated, so the later development of Late Homo sapiens was also influenced by the indigenous people of early Homo sapiens, resulting in a specific development that was different from that of other regions. The cave people are the result of this development, and it can be found that they have the shadow of the modern race (the Chinese people are all), while this phenomenon is not found in other regions.

The next chapter deals with the reasons for the decline of the Atlantean civilization.