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vita = 70 years (vita = life)
BP = Before Present
Vita
As century is a to long unit, I sought for a more comprehensive way to measure such distant times. Century is a good measure to be memorized and counted, but it does a poor job in transmitting time distance perception. Being larger than we can cope, it stretches out time in direct proportion to distance. So I chose as unit the largest lapse of time familiar to us, which can be experienced, i.e., the today's life expectancy:70 years. A granddaddy. I did some calculations to test the new unit (vita, latin word for life) and I got surprised with the change in time perception; it is like to use a magnifying glass in observing time, especially in historical period, and what seemed distant, comes close.
Homo sapiens oldest fossil evidence: 2.300 v. First burial with ritual (Shanidar, the "fossil of the soul"): 1,100 v. First representative art ( cave paintings and sculptures): 460 v. Domestication of plants and animals (and men): 170v. Now, dear reader, attempt for the immense absence of History: the oldest writing evidence (a proto-hieroglyph clay tablet discovered in Egypt, 1998) is 5,400 years BP, or just 78v (78 grandpas in a line and we return to the beginning of History). Since Shanidar there are more than 1,000 v of prehistory with fire, instruments and ritual, for just 78 v of historical period. Pyramids:70 v. First code (Dung): 60 v. Poetry, the poetry of Homer, has only 42v. Then came the divine Philosophy, 36, daughter of the powerful Thales. She didn't reach the acme yet and there is already who wants to destroy her. Three vitas later and Plato meets Socrates. So, I invite noble reader to experience vita.