Stone age technology

In Social Studies we have been looking at technology though the ages. Paige Thomas and I looked at the stone age. here is the work we did


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1. Explain the advancements in technology for your era in paragraph format

The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years and ended with the advent of melting and smelting of copper between 8700 and 2000 BCE. In western Asia this occurred by about 3000 BCE, when bronze became widespread. The term Bronze Age describes a time where certain cultures that had developed techniques and technologies for working copper into tools, replacing stone in many ways. Stone Age artifacts that have been discovered include tools used by modern humans, by their predecessor species in the Genus Homo, and possibly by the earlier partly contemporaneous genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus. The Stone Age happened at the same time of the evolution of the genus Homo, with the possible exception of the early Stone Age, when species prior to the Homo may have manufactured tools. Homo erectus, the predecessor of modern humans, found an ecological niche as tool makers and developed a dependence on it.

2. Include a timeline of the main technologies discovered in your era include dates and images




3. Select 5 of these inventions and explain what they do and how they improved everyday life.

Hand ax. It was made out of a sharpened stone. They were used to dig, chop wood, catch prey and prepare skins and food.





Fire (pit) Man found out that striking Iron pyrites onto flint would produce sparks (which were few and far between, and cold), which could be caught in horses hoof or King Alfred cake fungus, so they could turn that into fire.







Paint and art, they would have made the paints from ground up rocks and the brushes, would either be their hands twigs, moss, or horse hair brushes. They also blew paint onto the walls with bone tubes and reed pipes. They made the paint by grounding up colored rocks or charcoal, and mixing it with spit, water or animal fat. The cave painting was one of the ways modern humans learned of their predecessors.



Hammer stone was usually a hard stone which doesn’t break easily. It was made of sandstone, quartzite, or limestone and used for breaking other stones which were converted into other stone tools with sharp edges.







Mono and metate were two stones used together to crush things down to a dust or pulp. One of the things it was used for was to grind up plants, making the earliest form of medicine. 

Harpoons were used for hunting purposes. Big aquatic animals like whales were killed using harpoons. A rope could be attached to the harpoon to pull the hunted animals toward the hunter.




4. Are these things still used today? How much have they changed/or not explain and show images

Hand axes are now mainly made of a sharp metal blade attached to a wooden handle, however some could be made with plastic handles, and are mainly used for chopping wood. They are more durable, and can last longer without having to be sharpened



Fireplace it can keep a house warm and has upgraded from a brick implement that could be shaken down by an earthquake to one made of metal. We have also invented matches and lighters, which make lighting a fire much easier.




Modern day hammers, once a hard rock, have now become a piece of shaped, hardened metal attached to a handle, made out of wood, plastic, or metal. Some hammers are heavier and are used to demolish/smash things, and others are smaller and are used to drive nails into wood. They can also be used to remove nails.




Mortar and pestle coming from the moto and metate is also used by rubbing two stones together but the stones have been shaped for modern needs. They are also more durable, and are less likely to wear down




Art, We now can make synthetic paints that stick well and are very pigmented, and we have brushes that last a long time, and are better/easier to use. We also have different types of paints for different jobs, and for different looks , (Watercolor, acrylic, poster, oil, gouache, outdoor ect)



Harpoon guns are still used for fishing but now guns are motorized and are now made of a metal spike rather than a long and sharp piece of bone. They also have longer strings/wires and can pull in larger fish.




5. Include a clip explaining the advancements of technology in your era.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L87Wdt044b0


6. Create a replica of one of these inventions out of easy to reach materials from around school and home or create an artwork that represents/shows off all the amazing things that were invented and discovered during your era.

Cave art

(Pictures coming soon)


Bibliography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Age

https://danddinc.com/css/forum/85e739-Stone-Age-utensils

https://kidzfeed.com/stone-age-tools/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yu0qR5C4g8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_t6ch-JgQQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgrkTubXZHY

https://www.dkfindout.com/us/history/stone-age/cave-painting/

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