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Thursday, September 10, 2020

Technology and Change

 - During the Stone Age period in history, there were some significant technological advancements. 

Some of the inventions during this time were Cave paintings, Axes, weapons. 

Cave paintings The earliest known European figurative cave paintings are those of Chauvet Cave in France. These paintings date to earlier than 30,000 BCE (Upper Paleolithic) according to radiocarbon dating. Cave art is significant because it was what people in prehistoric times did in order to record history and culture. But, prehistoric cave art was also significant because it also served as a warning to people who were to come later. Because of this, they could show the way to kill a beast or warn them of a beast. 


- During the Stone Age period in history, A significant Invention that is the “Fire” was very useful in the stone age era. They Discovered that heating rocks easier to chip into stone tools. The fire also lets people turn into clay into hardened ceramic pots and vases, useful for carrying and storing food, water, or other items. They also used Fire to burned-out harmful plants because they want to clear obstacles in there campus and create more navigable trails or roads. As a source of warm Fire is really helpful in the stone age because it provided the source of warmth, Protection from Predators a way to create more advanced hunting tools, and a method for cooking food so that their food can be tastier. 

- A Significant Invention is seen during the stone age are daggers and spear points for hunting. It is very useful from early as 300,000 BP and 250,000 years ago, wooden spears were made with fire-hardened points. Useful for killing either thrown or thrust an enemy or prey. One of the earliest weapons devised by men and lasted until about 3,300 B.C. when the bronze age began.


- The handaxe is perhaps one of the popular inventions is seen during the Stone age period. It is used for cutting meat and scrapers for cleaning animal hides to chop trees and wood. Used for cutting and scavenging purposes. A hand Axe/Handaxe is a prehistoric stone tool with two faces that is the longest-used tool in human history. It is usually made from flint or chert. It is characteristic of the lower Acheulean and middle Paleolithic (Mousterian) Periods. To make sharp edges on these hand-axes, flaking was used on the hard stone to chip away at it A hand. Through stone tools date back at least 2.6 million years, this tool is around 300,000 years old and was collected between 1883 and 1890.


During the Stone Age, there were many Significant technological advancements Some of the inventions during this time were Fire, Daggers, Pointed Spears, Handaxe. Daggers were very helpful during those times by killing Animals to get food whether it was used to protect themselves from predators, Fire was also used to protect themselves from predators by scaring them, it is also used to be warm at night, at to see in the dark, to cook food, Handaxe used to chop something like a tree, chop woods. These are seen today as re-established and re-manufactured by people and make a business out of it this is also seen today as An Historical Events of what is leftover or what we/ us humans develop skills. These inventions are still relevantly used today whether its survival, camping



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