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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Culture in Prehistoric Ages

The prehistoric period saw variety of cultural modes in tool making,food,shelter and probably social arrangements and spiritual expression as humans adapted themselves to different geographical and climatic zones and levels of knowledge grew manifold.

Fire was used for heating cooking by 4,65,000 years.Fire hardened wooden spears weighed and set with small stone blades were fashioned by big game hunters 400,000 years ago in Germany.

Scraping tools found at certain sites suggest the treatment of skins for clothing.Human ancestors even learnt to navigate in boats over open water.The earliest bone tools were developed 80,000 years ago in the Congo basin to catch fishes.

Rock images are found at several sites in Africa,Europe with naturalistic wall paintings.They also point towards ritual burial.A variety of musical instruments including bone flutes with bored holes have been found in Paleolithic age going back as back as 80,000 years.

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