ABSTRACT
Indeed, Imagination could not work as a valid method
for understanding prehistory and pre-historical processes as subjective or
objective source. Yet historiographical imagination is only available inductive
method for writing prehistory and pre-historical processes. Out of the few
significant inherent natural features of the mind of Homo sapiens, a product of
evolution memory, imagination, creativity, and power of comprehending complex
natural processes are against preceding minds of primitive human species. The
naturally evolved primitive human mind also learnt art of making fire, bow and
arrows, pottery, stone implements, adobe-brick houses and later plantation by
irrigation. The two historical facts transmuted the existing basic instincts
making them primitive humans, other than preceding species of humans. 1) The
phenomenon of inter-tribal battles, becoming order of the day during savagery
because of sneaking clandestinely or openly, from other human tribes women,
children, and domestic animals provided four kinds of human in a victorious
tribe, “victor male”, “victor female”, “subjugated male” and “subjugated
female”, which transfigured the existing sexual behavior in a tribe; and 2) the
other phenomenon of “surplus labor” available only to males because of “surplus
pregnancy” of females finally became the instigator of distinction between
female and male, which in due course during the various stages of savagery and
barbarism became susceptible for the origin of patriarchy. The present paper
deals with the historiographical imagination as an inductive method for understanding responses of primitive human mind
during various stages of savagery and barbarism.