Kana uchifunga kuti kurwa kwevarume kubvisa bvudzi ndekwechizvino-zvino, tine nhau kwauri. Pane humbowo hwekuchera matongo hwekuti, muLate Stone Age, varume vaigerwa nematombo, obsidian, kana clamshell shards, kana kutoshandisa clamshells senge tweezers. (Hoo.)
Gare gare, varume vakaedza nebronze, mhangura nesimbi. Vapfumi vangangodaro vaiva nevashandi vanogera, isu tose taizoshanyira chitoro chevageri. Uye, kutanga muMiddle Ages, ungangodaro wakashanyira mugeri kana waida kuvhiyiwa, kubuda ropa, kana chero mazino abviswa. (Shiri mbiri, dombo rimwe.)

Munguva pfupi yapfuura, varume vakashandisa simbi yakatwasuka reza, inonziwo “kuchekwa-chekwa” nekuti…zvakanaka, zviri pachena. Magadzirirwo ayo akaita sebanga aireva kuti yaifanirwa kurodzwa nedombo rekukudza kana tambo yedehwe, uye yaida hunyanzvi hwakakura (tisingarevi laser-sekutarisa) kushandisa.

TAKATANGA KUBERA SEI?
Nokuda kwezvikonzero zvakawanda, zvinopera. VaEgipita vekare vaigera ndebvu dzavo nemisoro, zvichida nemhaka yokupisa uye zvichida senzira yokudzivisa inda. Kunyange zvazvo zvainzi hazvina musoro kumera bvudzi pachiso, vanafarao (kunyange vamwe vakadzi) vaichengeta ndebvu dzenhema vachitevedzera mwari ainzi Osiris.

Kuveura ndebvu kwakazogamuchirwa nevaGiriki panguva yaitonga Alexander Mukuru. Muitiro wacho waikurudzirwa zvikuru sechiyero chekudzivirira varwi, kudzivisa muvengi kubata ndebvu dzavo mukurwisana noruoko.

FASHION STATEMENT KANA FAUX PAS?
Varume vave nerudo-ruvengo hukama nevhudzi rechiso kubva pakutanga kwenguva. Mumakore ose aya, ndebvu dzave dzichionekwa sedzisina kutsvinda, dzakanaka, sechinodikanwa chechitendero, chiratidzo chesimba uye kusimba, kusvibiswa chaiko, kana kutaura kwezvematongerwo enyika.

Kusvikira Alexander Mukuru, vaGiriki vekare vaicheka ndebvu dzavo chete munguva dzekuchema. Nekune rimwe divi, majaya echiRoma munenge muna 300 BC vakaita mabiko e“kutanga kuveura ndebvu” kupemberera kukura kwavo kwainge kwauya, uye vaingosimudza ndebvu dzavo vachichema.

Munguva yaJulius Caesar, varume veRoma vakamutevedzera nekudzura ndebvu dzavo, uye ipapo Hadrian, Mambo weRoma kubva 117 kusvika 138, akadzosa ndebvu muchimiro.

Mapurezidhendi gumi neshanu ekutanga eUnited States akanga asina ndebvu (kunyange John Quincy Adams naMartin Van Buren vakatamba matinji anoorora.) Ipapo Abraham Lincoln, muridzi wendebvu dzakakurumbira zvikurusa, akasarudzwa. Akatanga maitiro matsva—vazhinji vevatungamiri vakamutevera vaiva nebvudzi rechiso, kusvikira Woodrow Wilson muna 1913. Uye kubvira ipapo, vatungamiri vedu vose vave vakaveurwa zvakachena. Uye nei? Kuveura ndebvu kwakabva kure.