Monday, August 30, 2010

How did artifacts tells about the early humans?

      Well, as the pictures or the artifacts tells us, the early humans all are a very good hunter because there are a lot of people chasing horses, deers and bisons. The humans also seem wild because of the way they hunted. They don't hunt with swords back then, instead, they uses bones from animals, stones, wood (wooden clubs, wooden swords...), and loads of other tools that aren't better than the weapons we have now (which is mostly made out of steel). When their tools were basic, they had to live in caves and places found in the natural environment and the Australopithecus Afarensis didn't have fire to keep them warm either.


      The early humans lives were hard. On some pictures, there were people who were killed by fighting bisons. But some cave paintings showed animals and thing very strange. Scientists thinks that the paintings might be some kind of a spirit or belief of the early humans. Early humans also has celebrations too. They have cave paintings such as hand prints, foot prints, and lots more. One scientist even found a clay sculpture with small foot prints around it! Scientist thinks that the the humans were probably having a celebration for kids and the kids danced around the sculpture to maybe celebrate a certain kind of age, or maybe they are finally a man.
 
      But eventually, if their lives are hard, there's going to be heroes. The painting on some of them shows only one to three persons attacking an animal or animals. But sometimes, there are death. If they draw someone, then it must mean that the guy they drew is important. But another thing is that if they drew about death, that means at the time of the early humans, death must been taken as a kind of thing that always will happen.


      I think that's the most I can say and the most I can explain, hope you guys enjoys it!!

                                     Here is a photo of a cave painting...
http://www.modernhumanorigins.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Cro-Magnon-cave-paintings.jpg

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