What was Stone Age Period ?

The Neolithic or New Stone Age began from the start of the farming until the use of the metal. Animals like sheep and cow were domesticated widely. They were given a ready supply of meat, leather, bone and milk.

Grain was of the first foods to be stored for an extended period. And storing food meant staying in one place. This led to the development of settlements. Human also developed crafts such as weaving and pottery in this period. Even large-scale construction took place, and people began taking roles of fighter, ruler, priest, farmer and leader.

Around 6 to 7 million years back, a group of apes began walking on two legs. These were the hominins, a group that includes the modern humans and the ancestors. After 3 million years, these creatures began to look like humans. By this time, several hominins appeared, and of several kinds too.

Homo habilis or the ‘skilled man’ was the group of hominins to make tools. They had pretty large brains, and nimble hands will skill and knowledge to make tools. They used their sharp-edged tools to cut the carcasses of the animals and eat. The Homo habilis lived 2.4 to 1.6 million years.

After 2 million years back a new type of hominin, named Homo erectus, learned how to create fire to keep warm, frighten away the animals and cook meat. They were also the first our ancestors to have the same body proportion like us

Every human in the world today belongs to Homo sapiens, which means ‘wise man.’ Modern humans or Homo sapiens emerged around 200,000 years ago in Africa. It’s said that six other kids of humans were alive at the same time. But 24000 years back, the Homo sapiens were the only humans left on the earth. After 9000 years, Homo sapiens inhabited every continent of the world, except Antarctica

The Homo sapiens had slender bodies and large brains. They made art, cave walls with pictures of people and animal and painting rocks. They even carved the bone in human and animal shapes and even made pottery from clay. After around 5000 years, the Homo sapiens began growing crops and other grains to eat.

The Homo sapiens had slender bodies and large brains. They made art, cave walls with pictures of people and animal and painting rocks. They even carved the bone in human and animal shapes and even made pottery from clay. After around 5000 years, the Homo sapiens began growing crops and other grains to eat.

The Stone Age people cut the food with sharp stones and cooked on open fire. They used animal skins to make clothes and for shelter.

Human ancestors during the Stone Age period lived primarily in caves, some in groups and some solitary. The shelters made by the Neanderthals also suggest that they lived in wooden huts

Huts made of animal skin over the wooden poles were found in a cave in Grotte du Lazaret in France. Huts with divided living spaces, braced with mammoth bones were found in Serbia, Russia, Ukraine, and France. This is one of the interesting stone age facts for children.

One of the most notable advancements in the human history is the use and development of tools. The tools allowed the early humans to become a master of their environment.

They used stone tools to protect themselves from the animals, to build homes and gather food. They made simple hand-axes made out of stone. Antlers and hammers from the bones were also used.

the oldest stone tool is said to be around 3.4 million years old. The tool was discovered in the Lower Awash Valley in Ethiopia. They used stones to make fire, for chopping, hunting, and almost everything they did.

The early humans develop religious beliefs to explain the world around them. Gatherers and Hunters tried to contact the spirit of the animals that they hunted. As they began farming and settling, they even started making tombs for the ancestor.

they aware of the changing seasons, they started making up stories regarding the thunderstorms and sunrise. They even started worshipping the forces of nature. The large boulder tombs called the megaliths were considered the link between the living and the dead.

The freezing climate of the ice age made clothing essential for the early. They cleaned, prepared and wrapped the animal skins around their bodies to keep them warm. Some even decorated their faces with paints made from the natural pigments.

Around 75000 years back, the early humans made their first jewelry. They used shells, bones, tusks to make bracelets and necklaces. It is one of the interesting stone age clothing facts for kids.

Stone Age people lived as hunters and gatherers. So instead of growing food, they went out in search of it. They fished and hunted for food, especially in the Ice Age.

Later on, our ancestors learned to gather plants and fruits, take honey from the wild beehives and eggs from the bird’s nest. What the stone age people ate depended entirely on what they could find each season. They ate berries, fruits when they ripened, and meat from the animals when they were plentiful.

Around 12,000 years ago, the hunter-gatherers made an incredible discovery. They dug up the ground, threw a few wild seeds and learned to farm. For the Stone Age people, farming mean controlling the food sources by growing plants and raising animals.

They stopped moving in search of food and began setting in one place all year round. The plow was invented in around 5000 BCE, which made it easier to sow the seeds in the ground.

Life became a lot more systematic after the discovery of farming. Large-scale buildings with stalls and straw roof were built; Stonehenge being a powerful example of it. Pots and pans made out of clay also came into existence.

Ice Age was the period when temperatures around all over the world dropped. There have been several Ice Ages, including the one that early humans lived through. The Neanderthals living during the Ice Age survived by staying together in groups, building shelters and hunting large animals like mammoths.

The dog was the first animal to be domesticated in the Stone Age. It happened for this first time during the Mesolithic period. They would help the humans with hunting, would warn them of the impending dangers and provide comfort and warmth.