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Toolmaking. One day in October of 1960, Jane Goodall found a chimp that she had named David Greybeard squatting on a termite mound. Not wanting to startle him, she stopped some distance away and could not see clearly what he was doing. He seemed to be poking pieces of grass into the mound, then raising them to his mouth. When he left, she approached the mound. She inserted one of the abandoned grasses into a hole in the mound and found that the termites bit onto it with their jaws. David had been using the stem as a tool to "fish" for insects! Soon after this discovery, Jane observed David and other chimps actually picking leafy twigs then stripping the leaves so that the twig was a suitable tool.

This was modification of an object to make a tool — the crude beginning of tool making. Evolution: Library: Dexterity and Early Tools. A few anthropologists have gotten quite good at what seems a rather odd preoccupation: making stone tools the way our hominid ancestors did. They can find a good rounded stone to be the "core," pick up another, called a "hammerstone," and proceed to knock fine-edged "flakes" that are very sharp and could be used to cut meat and scrape animal bones. These hardy individualists have immersed themselves in stone tool manufacture because the point at which our ancestors began to do this marks a critical juncture in evolution. Animals like the chimp -- and even Darwin's finches -- can use sticks they've found as tools.

But even when chimps are given stones and shown how to chip tools from them, what they produce doesn't compare to even the most primitive implements that show up in the hominid record about 2.5 million years ago. Part of the problem is that chimpanzee hands are not well adapted to such delicate work. Savor. History of Salt | SaltWorks. As far back as 6050 BC, salt has been an important and integral part of the world’s history, as it has been interwoven into the daily lives of countless historic civilizations. Used as a part of Egyptian religious offerings and valuable trade between the Phoenicians and their Mediterranean empire, salt and history have been inextricably intertwined for millennia, with great importance placed on salt by many different races and cultures of people.

Even today, the history of salt touches our daily lives. The word “salary” was derived from the word “salt.” Salt was highly valued and its production was legally restricted in ancient times, so it was historically used as a method of trade and currency. The word “salad” also originated from “salt,” and began with the early Romans salting their leafy greens and vegetables. Table of Contents: Most people probably think of salt as simply that white granular food seasoning found in a salt shaker on virtually every dining table. Salt in History. The symbolism of salt in paintings. [Am J Nephrol. 1997. The salt design. SALT Branding - The essential ingredient for Branding Leaders. Juncture. Apotheosis. Apotheosis (from Greek ἀποθέωσις from ἀποθεοῦν, apotheoun "to deify"; in Latin deificatio "making divine"; also called divinization and deification) is the glorification of a subject to divine level.

The term has meanings in theology, where it refers to a belief, and in art, where it refers to a genre. In theology, the term apotheosis refers to the idea that an individual has been raised to godlike stature. In art, the term refers to the treatment of any subject (a figure, group, locale, motif, convention or melody) in a particularly grand or exalted manner.

Antiquity[edit] Prior to the Hellenistic period, imperial cults were known in Ancient Egypt (pharaohs) and Mesopotamia (since Naram-Sin). Ancient Greece[edit] From at least the Geometric period of the ninth century BC, the long-deceased heroes linked with founding myths of Greek sites were accorded chthonic rites in their heroon, or "hero-temple". Ancient Rome[edit] Ancient China[edit] Southeast Asia[edit] Christianity[edit] Generally[edit] Saltworks Informed Design for Enthusiast Brands(TM) Saltmine Design Group | A Passionate Collective of Creatives and Marketers. Acr_vol32_106.pdf. Castor and Pollux. Dioscuri (Pollux or Castor), Rome, Capitol Dioscuri (Castor or Pollux), Rome, Capitol They are sometimes called the Tyndaridae or Tyndarids,[7] later seen as a reference to their father and stepfather Tyndareus. Birth and functions[edit] Castor depicted on a calyx krater of ca. 460–450 BC, holding a horse's reins and spears and wearing a pilos-style helmet Castor and Polydeuces are sometimes both mortal, sometimes both divine.

One consistent point is that if only one of them is immortal, it is Polydeuces. The Dioscuri were regarded as helpers of mankind and held to be patrons of travellers and of sailors in particular, who invoked them to seek favourable winds.[9] Their role as horsemen and boxers also led to them being regarded as the patrons of athletes and athletic contests.[10] They characteristically intervened at the moment of crisis, aiding those who honoured or trusted them.[11] Classical sources[edit] Mythology[edit] As Argonauts[edit] Rescuing Helen[edit] Iconography[edit]