Showing posts with label PREHISTORY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PREHISTORY. Show all posts

Tuesday, 20 May 2014

ANCIENT REMAINS

The first human beings decorated cave walls with paintings.
In this period, tools were very simple.
Humans shaped knives and arrowheads by hitting two rocks together.
They made spears and harpoons from wood or bone.
Primitive human beings made clay pots to hold food and water.

Prehistoric painting in Altamira, Spain.
Picture from Wikipedia, by Rameesos.

Picture from Wikimedia Commons, by Mercy
A spear and a series of javelins from Wikipedia, by Master z0b



TRAVELLING IN PRIMITIVE TIMES

The first human beings travelled on foot.
This made travelling very slow.
Later, people domesticated animals.
They invented the wheel and made the first carts.
They also built the first sailing boats.
Travelling became easier and faster.

Ancient British Canoe, from Wikipedia, by MarVelo

LIFE IN PRIMITIVE TIMES

Many thousands of years ago, human beings lived in small groups called tribes.
They ate plants and hunted animals for food.
Tribes travelled from place to place to find fresh food.
They lived ner rivers to obtain fresh water.
They made simple huts from branches and animal skins, or they lived in caves.
later, human beings learned to cultivate plants and domesticate animals.
They built permanent villages with simple houses.

Picture from Wikipedia by Viktor Vasnetsov