There are some irrefutable facts that almost everyone accepts in the tale of humanity. Existence of the first man, Adam, is one of these facts However, this information is not save enough to characterize our greatest ancestor. People have ever so wondered what he looked corresponding, his life and his interaction with nature. This wonder is not completely a result of personal interests; it is also a header that examines the origin of humanity and civilization. People have assumed that bad-mannered existence were like animals therefore there was a Brobdingnagian gap between the life of primitive man and todays cultured man and they began to investigate the reasons for this change and several questions were asked: When did the civilization do work of human begin? Was foundation and development of humanity a revolution or an evolution that progresses relatively to the time? How tin this progress be called: the taming of a beast of prey as Friedrich Nietzsche claims or a development in ideas and life styles of humans and improvement of technique? All these questions are to be answered in the rest of this essay.
        First of all, the image of the first man -or more than generally primitive man- has to be described. The image that evokes in todays people attend is the portrait of an animal, which has not met with civilization yet.
The Epic of Gilgamesh describes this image by characteristics of Enkidu: In the wilderness (?) she (Annu) created valiant Enkidu...His w hole body was shaggy-coated with hair, he had a full head of hair like woman ...He ate grasses with the gazelles and jostled at he watering hole with the animals; as with animals, his thirst was slaked with (mere) water.(Gilgamesh, I, 6). Here Enkidu seems to reflect the ferocious human as a wild animal. This resemblance is...
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