What Stone Age Life Was Like

Archaeological discoveries show how humans survived in the early days by building tools that we still use today. This is what life was like in the Stone Age.

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Number 10 Time Period
Early time periods in human history are defined from an archeological perspective by the technology and type of tools that we used, thus “Stone Age” refers to the materials said tools were made out of. It’s the first of a three-age system, followed by the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. The oldest stone tools were excavated at a site in Kenya and date back 3.3 million years. Discovered in the mid-2010s, it was a ground-breaking find that pushed back the timeline of tool use by almost a million years. The species responsible for creating the rough instruments remains unknown but was probably an ape ancestor called Australopithecus. Judging by this find, it can be said that the Stone Age lasted from 3.3 million years ago and ended between 8700 and 2000 BC, with the development of metalworking. The age as a whole is further divided into the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Ages correspondent to the old, middle and new Stone Age.
Number 9 Humans
The Stone Age is interwoven with human evolution, because it’s within this vast time period that anatomically-modern humans emerged. The evolution wasn’t a linear but more of a web-like process that involved splits from primate ancestors and the gradual development of bipedalism, symbolic thinking, language and other evolutionary milestones. Therefore, the Stone Age saw the rise and fall of other members of the genus, each of them adding their contribution to evolution.
Number 8 Ice Age
The Stone Age is how the timeline is referred to from a technological perspective, but from a geological standpoint the period coincides with the Pleistocene, also known as the Ice Age. It was a time characterized by rotating patterns of glacial periods, in which the world’s water was trapped in massive sheets of frozen ice.
Number 7
Despite commonly depicted as “cavemen”, not all prehistoric humans were cave dwellers, in fact most weren’t. Nevertheless, caves have been crucial in understanding early humans, particularly since so much information comes from items recovered from them.
Number 6 Tools
Throughout history, tools have been the gateway to progress and this is true for the people of the Stone Age as well. Hammer stones were among the earliest and simplest tools and they were used to chip other stones into sharp-edged flakes.
Number 5 Art
Stone Age people produced art, in the form of music, rock carvings and drawings. This is proven by the discovery of several areas with parietal art, such as the Lascaux cave system, in France. Stone Age people mainly drew or rock-carved depictions of animals but there were also human figures with animal features. Additionally there are various symbols, which some have interpreted as early forms of calendars or almanacs. The truth is that the significance of Stone Age art remains a mystery and a subject of interpretation.
Number 4 Family Structure
Anatomically modern humans somehow figured out that they had to select mates outside their own families through social ties with other tribes. They lived in small family communities and passed their knowledge from generation to generation, thus enabling the advancement of the tribe. This included how to make tools, techniques, what plants to eat and much more.
Number 3 Pets
There’s a reason why the dog is regarded as man’s best friend, since it’s the first animal humans domesticated. 40,000 to 20,000 years ago a genetic divergence occurred between dogs and wolves. As anthropologist Brian Hare put it “the domestication of the dog was one of the most extraordinary events in human history”.
Number 2 Food
You might have heard of the “paleo diet”, which refers to consuming the same food that people did during the Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age. This meant that they would often have to travel to where food and fresh water was more abundant. Stone Age humans fished but also consumed eggs, seeds, nuts, vegetables, berries, and grasses. The development of pottery allowed people to better cook and store their food. The earliest evidence of pottery dates back around 20,000 years and comes from a cave in China.

Number 1 Strategies
In 2015, an 11,000-year-old mammoth was unearthed by a Michigan farmer while he was digging in his field. After the man notified the University of Michigan, a team of paleontologists was sent to the site and uncovered parts of the mammoth’s pelvis, shoulder blades, ribs and vertebrae, complete with two massive tusks.

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