2. The Making of Tools
The development of tools were one of the major
A stone age achievements of the stone age. They were a big
axe. part of the transition between nomads and
farmers. The tools usually had a wooden handle
and sometimes a flint blade, or even just a big
flat stone. Axes were useful for nomads and
farmers, they could kill a deer or dig holes for
seeds.
One of the main advantages of tools is
they are quite easy to make or at least
find materials for. So when broken can be
remade quite easily. Another advantage is
the weight a tool can be light and then
taken with you and left behind.
The importance of the development of tools is
massive. When people started to learn how to
grow crops the tools were one of the things that
helped them most. They could make strenuous jobs
much easier and sometimes even make them
possible, such as with cutting trees down.
3. The Domestication of Animals
The domestication of animals means when
people start to keep livestock such as cows A painting of
or pigs. This development came at around the herding
the same time as the agricultural of a cow.
revolution. Animals were kept in a field in
the summer but when the weather got
colder they were moved into a barn.
This way of keeping animals had many
advantages. One was if there was a bad
harvest and your surpluses had run out,
you could butcher an animal for the
Stone age meat. Or live off the things the animals
barn. produce, such as eggs and milk. And it
meant you didn’t have to hunt animals
The importance of learning how to keep for miles but always had a supply of
animals was great. People could live off a diet meat.
of berries, meat and crops with surpluses. As
more animals were killed there would probably
have been extra things like leather and bones
which could be used for specializing in clothes
and other useful items.
