Symposium Introduction

In another era - the Neolithic (New Stone Age) - along with hunting, fishing and gathering is becoming increasingly important process food production. Are made first attempts to domesticate animals and Breeding plants emerging manufacture of ceramics. Already 9-10 thousand years ago, there were settlements, among the remains of which reveal wheat barley, lentils, bones of domestic animals - goats, pigs, sheep. IN PROCESS rudiments of farming and ranching economy. Widely used fire and for the destruction of vegetation in shifting cultivation, and as a means of hunting. Begins development of mineral resources, emerging metallurgy.

Emergence antropotsenozov.

Population growth, a qualitative leap in the development of science and technology over the past two century, and especially in our days, have led to human activities become a factor of global scale, the guiding force of the further evolution biosphere. Have antropotsenozy (from the Greek anthropos - man, koinos - General, community) - community of organisms, in which the person is dominant species, and its activities, determining the state of the system .

Vernadsky believed that the influence of scientific thought and human labor led the transition to a new state of the biosphere - noosphere (the sphere of reason). Humanity is now using for its own needs more and more of the territory planet and a growing number of mineral resources.