I mean specific words used exclusively to identify individuals within a group that had no other meaning outside this.
2006-12-31 09:15:07 · 10 answers · asked by lallylicious 1 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
Last names were needed to discern family groups. Hence, most last names for w. europeans are geographic or occupational. Hill, Smith, etc. Research your last name on ancestry.com
2007-01-01 03:45:09 · answer #1 · answered by Sarah S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Historically, the first reference to an individual's name is Biblical: Adam and Eve, who had sons referred to as Cain and Abel. Genesis, the first book of the Bible, goes into great detail on the geneology of those forthcoming.
2007-01-01 18:14:03 · answer #2 · answered by Baby Poots 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When language evolve i would assume names came to identify another person.
As far as Adam and Eve, I very much doubt that. There are so many contradiction in a bible. No mention of dinosaur, and ark big to carry every animal. Wood cannot hold to something that extreme.
2007-01-01 09:04:50 · answer #3 · answered by Leo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the beginning, everyone had the name Yu. They would walk around ahd say, Hey Yu and everyone was confused. So they gave the men the name dude and the women got the name ho. But that didn;t work so well either.
2006-12-31 09:24:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are groups identified in the Bible, so probably when God created the earth and all of its living creatures.
2006-12-31 09:23:10 · answer #5 · answered by Lin S. 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When God created Adam.The oldest human name in the world
2006-12-31 13:57:33 · answer #6 · answered by momma 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably as soon as the earliest humans...
Certainly hundreds of thousands of years.
2006-12-31 09:21:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve named their baby?
2006-12-31 09:23:34 · answer #8 · answered by GUESS GIRL 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
primarily human bieng start to give names as soon as the civilization start......but it developed more in the period of christianity...
2007-01-01 20:31:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
forever duh!
2006-12-31 12:46:56 · answer #10 · answered by nαrcíssα [misses being a TC] 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋