PALAEOLITHIC OR OLD STONE AGE
This age began some where between 5,00,000 and 2,50,000 years
ago and will expire at the end of 80,000 years. This vast
period was divided into lower, middle and upper Paleolithic
Age. The most important fact about the Paleolithic age is
that man is essentially a food gathering rather than a producer
of food. This meeting was made possible and facilitated by
which it implements of wood products, bones and stones. That
is why the palaeolothic stage of human evolution is also called
phase of collecting food. This way of supporting himself suffered
a dramatic improvement in one of the greatest invention in
human history, namely the production and use of fire.
Homo sapien, appeared on the scale of biological evolution only 28000 to 30000
years. Therefore, it is essentially a phenomenon of the upper
or the last phase of the Paleolithic age. For most of the
early Paleolithic Age scene was populated hominid, but not
men who are men like creatures. Hominid looks at the man and
is probably closest ancestor of modern man. He is a man like.
This is its resemblance monkeys - which leaves a biological
difference between him and the man.
Archaeologists have identified stone made even before the
start of the Palaeolithic age man by some as creatures. It
is very difficult to distinguish them from natural stones
before the break. But they appear to be intelligently chopped.
Archaeologists from the first stone tools-tools' eoliths "human
work of these eoliths is accepted by many archaeologists,
but rejected by some.
The proof is available to our belief that in the first or less Paleolithic
age, the men were manufacturing implements stone. Probably
the first tools used various purposes such as the slaughter
of animals, cutting their organs and scarping hides and skins
in order to dress.
Men start or lower Paleolithic Age have another damaging their
credit. It is making and using fire. It served well in freeing
themselves from the yoke imposed on them by nature. Man could
suffer from the cold nights and could penetrate into temperate
and arctic regions. The flames gave him the light at night,
and allowed him to hear inside the shelter caves. Fire scared
away other wild animals. Food made edible and digestible by
cooking. The man is no longer restricted in its movements
in a range of climates. Its activities are not entirely limited
by the sunlight
As a food collection, the earliest Man had to engage in hunting,
trapping and lizards fist, collecting fruits and eggs, and digging
roots and other edible substances, for their livelihood. In
the process, he has made important observations on the animals.
He also learned the properties of different species by collecting
eggs, fruit and roots. In doing so, he finally decipher the
calendar of the heavens, the phases of the moon and the stars.
Early man was thus simultaneously laying the groundwork for
chemistry, geology, zoology, botany and astronomy, and hence
the foundation of science as a whole. As the first phase
of the Paleolithic age has been brought to an end and intermediate
phase began in the morning, the men and improving their tools
developed two types of stone technology. In some areas, tool
makers adopted the procedure convenient flakes separation
from the mother-in pieces (technically called core), then
the filling of flakes working as real tools. In other regions,
the procedure is of the base itself. The first one is called
flakes industry and the nucleus of this sector. In some areas,
these industries was mixed. Apart from the improvements in
terms of care and delicacy of the workmanship as well as the
emergence of various types of stone industrial traditions,
there is also the aesthetic dimension acquired by the tools
with the passage of time.
While welcoming Sapiens appeared in the middle of the Paleolithic
Age, the scene is still dominated by man-like creatures or
hominids. The best known in the Paleolithic Age hominid is
called "Neanderthal Man". The contribution of Neanderthalers
and their contemporaries middle Paleolithic to the evolution
of civilization is immense. They had more multiformed and
differentiated stone implants than their predecessors. They
possessed weapons specialist as spear heads and separate tools
for scraping and grinding. Their way of hunting has become
much more pay. They began to hunt mammoths and rhinoceroses.
In doing so, they were more organized then their predecessors,
given that hunting on a large scake would be possible only
through collective activity.
Modern man appeared on the scene and was at the latest or the
Upper Palaeolithic age. The good story of the man then takes
place at this stage. Modern man inheriting a stable technical
tradition began building a building impressive. He developed
a variety of tools for different uses. He began using bone
and ivory for making tools, in particular those used for the
manufacture of small tools, He even invented simple mechanical
devices, like archery and lance-launcher. These increased
its capability to deliver weapons long distances accurately.
In addition, the man began providing himself with artificial
protection against climate change by building tents animal
skins as well substantial houses. This is how man has developed
the technique handed down against him.
The development of arc and lance-launcher requires considerable
knowledge about the motions of objects being machanics which
is the largest branch of physics. The paintings of animals
and humans in caves reveal remarable knowledge of the anatomy
and physiology. The man laid the foundation for a new science
adding to the store of knowledge of other sciences raised
by his ancestors.
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