2. Tools
How were tools made?
Tools are one of the most important things
that the Stone Age people learned to make.
Without tools humans would have never How were tools used?
survived. Tools were first made by the type
of human called homo habilis meaning man This was how the stone
of skill. They probably first invented them Tools have helped humans tools were polished. I
by using rocks to break or slice through don’t think our generation
greatly during the time and
something and then they learned that it could imagine such hard
would slice through more easily if the object life would be so much more
difficult. If we didn’t have work.
that they slice with were sharper. During
time their tools became more and more tools we wouldn’t be able
advanced until the type of tools we have to go hunt with a bow and
now. The steps of making a simple axe head arrow, we wouldn’t be able
was a lot more difficult back then then it is to catch fish as easily and
now, because they first had to drill a hole sewing clothes would be so
into it which took some time. The put the much more difficult to do
hole in this hard rock by using sand and
when it is done by hand.
then rubbing a stick on the stone so that
slowly a hole was made, this would take
many days. When they were done they then
had to polish it for a while. This is the tool they used to
put a hole into the stone.
Why have tools been so important to us?
I think that life would be impossible if it hadn’t been for our ancestors that found out how to make tools. Now
that tools have been improved so well I could never imagine running around with a bow and arrow and a cutting
stone. Living like that must have been very hard indeed.
3. Domestication of Animals
How was the domestication of animals
invented?
The domestication of animals was first used when humans started
to grow their own crops and started to settle down. This
achievement was made, because it was a very hard life always
running after your food and having to move every winter because
it got too cold. They probably started capturing animals and
breeding them, because maybe one of the group members
How has the domestication suggested it so they tried it out and it worked. The domestication
of animals used and of animals then started to happen all around the world because
everyone wanted to start to settle down.
helped?
The domestication of animals was used to get a
surplus of food and to have enough food to last Why is the domestication of animals important?
out for ever. Goats were used for their milk and
later on cows were used for their milk as well. Pigs
This achievement was very important but probably not as
were fed well until they got fat and then killed for
important as other achievements like fire and tools. We probably
meat and chickens were used for eggs and their
could live without the domestication of animals but it would be a
meat as well. Another important animal we used
hard life and we still would have to be nomads. We should still be
are sheep, they were used for meat as well as
grateful that our ancestors achieved this, because life would be so
their wool. The domestication of animals helped a
difficult without this luxury of not having to run after your
ton though. It helped because mankind could
food, and now with all the new tools farming has become even
finally settle down and life became a lot easier as
easier. Soon it could be that we have to do nothing to take care of
well.
the animals we breed will be taken care of only machinery.
4. Cooking How was cooking used and
how was it helped?
How was cooking invented? Cooking was used to make food
taste better so that we people could
live more comfortably. Cooking
Cooking was first made towards the end of the
helped a lot for our ancestors. It
generation where stone aged people were hunter
helped our ancestors, because it
gatherers. One of the best theories on how cooking
avoided a lot of sicknesses that you
was invented would be that a little kid was playing
can get from eating raw meat an
around with his food at the fire and then it dropped
example is tape worms. You can get
in. He then had to eat the food because the family
tape worms if you eat raw meat too
didn’t want to waste food so he ate it. It turn out
This is the type of often. It also helped because the
that the meat that fell into the fire was really good.
bread they ate in the food tasted a lot better and it
At first his group members thought he was crazy but
stone age but it was softened some of the food up when
once they tried the fried meat they started to do this
really stale. water was added. This
every mealtime they got. This was how cooking was
helped, because they didn’t lose
invented.
their teeth as fast.
Why is cooking important?
If cooking weren’t around then humankind would be able to
survive but we would die more quickly and wouldn’t be able live
as long as we would be able to now. We would also consistently
get sicknesses from eating raw meat. I would prefer that cooking
was invented because I could never imagine eating non cooked
In the bowls are some of the few grains and nuts meat. This is another thing I am glad that the stone aged people
that the stone aged people ate. invented.
