hey guys today we're going to talk about what life in the Stone Age was like
using the themes of history I want this video to show what evidence suggests
about how Stone Age people lived but before we get any further and I want to
explain how all the information I'm about to provide to you was found
through answering the question "how do we know about the Stone Age?" as you probably
know Stone Age people did not have written language so there are very few
artifacts from that time we have to rely on other types of evidence to know what
life in the Stone Age was one type of evidence that we rely on is
archaeological evidence such as fossils tools carvings and cave paintings they
help us understand how Stone Age people lived and another type of evidence that
we use is based off of modern hunter-gatherer societies since there
are still some people in the world who live in the Stone Age lifestyle examples
include the Aboriginal people in Australia the Khoisan people of southern
Africa and the Awa tribe of the Amazon in South America these people have kept
some of the traditions and customs of the Stone Age so we can make guesses
about what life was like thousands of years ago by learning from them
now that that's out of the way we can now actually talk about what life in the
Stone Age was like using themes the first thing that we're going to talk
about is economics when I say economics you might think of
economy as jobs and money but these are modern concepts for most of human
history money did not exist the economy is all the things people do with the
resources they have Stone Age people were nomadic hunter-gatherers their food
was what they could gather or kill what they could gather were resources such as
fruits which by the way these are so freakin cute
I found a Gif it's so oddly satisfying... oh and eggs look at this dude and honey
and last but not least killed small animals which by the way I feel so
guilty for these are so cute
next up we have the theme of political now we don't know how people in the Stone Age made
decisions Stone Age bands did not have governments like today but
we think that they may choose one of the young strong man to be the leader or the
chief who can make decisions for everyone
the chief probably consulted the elders because of their wisdom and experience
one of the most important elders is the shaman or the witch doctor who could
communicate with the spirits we are now onto the theme of culture we have found
a lot of artwork made by early humans including cave paintings and carvings
they made paint by grinding up minerals of various colors
historians guess that people painted paintings to worship or to record
important events evidence also suggests that Stone Age people were animistic
which means they believed that there were spirits in the nature they respect
the spirits in animals trees rocks water and they thought that those spirits
caused things that they couldn't explain
and the last thing we're going to talk about today is society in a Stone Age
society people lived in small groups or band of about 10 and 12 adults and their children
men and woman did different work
men and boys did the hunting while woman and girls gathered food
in a Stone Age tribe there was no idea of rich and poor there was no "help me I'm poor" like this woman
or "I'm rich" like this woman people share food and resources communally
that's it hope you enjoyed watching the video and learned something out of it
thanks for watching and not clicking off right away when I started
Byeeeeee......
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