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Jerlene Kysiel F. Garillos BSSW I-A

February 11, 2019

STS The Stone Age began as far back as two million years ago. The Stone Age was a period right before the advancement of human cultures. Previously the usage of metals when instruments and weapons were made of stone and human sustenance was for the most part delivered from hunting and gathering. The Stone Age shaped, developed and formed our modern day form of living or in other words, prehistory that shaped today. The hominins were intelligent and resourceful, thus dispersed across challenging climate and risky environment. They are more likely seen as a reflection of inventiveness and creativity. Moreover, The Neolithic and the Paleolithic

periods comprises of numerous comparisons inside elements with respect to the usage of stone devices, the advancement of arts and painting, and the distinctions in physical geography that has formed the present reality. Further reflections and discoveries from the video will be discussed and enlisted below. From the video, the ways of living and the first tools used before by Homo Habilis has forced us to completely led us to alter assumptions together with the concept that man really is a toolmaker. The men of those occasions were hunter-gatherers and utilized, now and again— it is astonishing to know that just a single instrument is used for various occupations; like sharpedged cores, hammer stones, lumps of stones, and pointed bone fragments. Compared today that we have variety of tools as an access in doing the simplest jobs, everything is with convenience. In the Stone Age, the hunting and gathering of food was the standard. The video presentation showed that the guys of this time had some expertise in chasing - for the most part with stonetipped weapons, while the females accumulated things. As time passed by, these modern humans (Homo sapiens) made such concentrated instruments as bone needles, bone fishhooks, nets, hand axes, choppers, scrubbers, blades, burins, spears, and wooden bows and sharp stone-tipped bolts. Needles were utilized to sew animal skins together to dress utilizing ligaments as the string. Fishhooks and nets were utilized to get fish. Hand-axes could be utilized for cutting meat, scratching skins, hacking wood, burrowing openings, and pounding bone or wood. Choppers were utilized for crushing bones open to get marrow, hacking wood, relaxing meat, and perhaps as a primitive hammer. Scraperes were conveyed for dressing hide and perhaps acquiring meat from bones. These were extracted from the ways of living on whom they believed ‘echoes from

the past’— the people who still hunt and gather today. That’s why Niobe Thompson, an anthropologist, searched his way on how our ancestors were able to conquer every environment on earth. He explored the unlikely survival and the miraculous emergence of Homo sapiens as the world’s only global species. Moving on, Stone tools are considered a brilliant invention after discovering that some stone tools date back to 2 million years ago. They vary in shape, size, and all made from rock. They were made by holding one rock and striking it with another rock until the shape or sharpness that they wanted. Moreover, a thought popped out in the video saying they were almost as clever as the modern people, but I would have to disagree with that. Truthfully speaking, modern times people are nothing compared to our ancestors who survived. Why? Because today, 2/3 of human would die without electricity. Those early humans had life and world wisdom, the only valuable kind of knowledge and understanding, I should say. Another thing, our ancestors before encountering farming, has never ever settled down. We all know that settlements are very important into our modern day life. Early Stone age people constantly moved around to find food and places to hunt, thus they did not have permanent home. They travel and look for accessible resources, one meal away from starvation— but farming made all the differences and their life became systematic. It’s also interesting to know that archaeologists found out not just some but many rock homes today and may have been used as living spaces for thousands of years! The Archaeologists on the video used special techniques such as radiocarbon dating to work out what life was like in Stone Age times. They have also discovered cave paintings, sculptures, and carvings. Used sharp stones for carving and engraving and used pigments from minerals for painting. Such minerals like rust for red, charcoal for black, and mixed with water. Also, it is really amazing to know that Stone Age people also formed their own music and even dances. Some of their instruments that was discovered were drums and flutes made from woods and ivory. My heart also pounded when one of the Evolutionary Biologist became emotional upon knowing his study was a no. Another thing that made things more special was the discovery of a Molecular Biologist— Sarah Anzick, in which bones were discovered but is believed to be sacred. After extracting all the informations they need, they brought him back (the remains) on where it belongs and enacted the ritual. It is believed that as they live in the same place, they began to bury the dead more carefully. Furthermore, with the beginnings of metallurgy, the Stone Age of man comes to an end.

Our ancient human precursors once lived just in Africa, in little groups of a couple of thousand hunter gatherers. At that point we moved out of our African support, spreading quickly to each edge of the planet. How could we obtain the abilities, innovation and ability to flourish in each condition on earth? How did our ancient ancestors cross the Sahara by walking, endure freezing ice ages, and sail to remote Pacific islands? "Great Human Odyssey" is a marvelous worldwide voyage following their strides out of Africa along a trail of new logical signs. With remarkable looks at the present Kalahari seekers, Siberian reindeer herders, and Polynesian guides, we find astonishing skills that allude to how our ancestors endure and succeeded long ago. Those nomads have changed our world and made our civilization possible. Every single human species face inquiries regarding adjustment, adaptation, long-term viewpoints versus momentary gains. I'm confident and hopeful at the same time on the grounds that we are species that has risen up out of a long history of adaptation.

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