ii. Hunter gatherers used stone tools for most of their chores such as kill animals, harvest plants, clear brush, and start fire to cook food.…
Their houses were made in a cone shape using slabs of bark or brush. They also had sweathouses that they used to keep their skin clean.…
“Basics of Wilderness Survival Shelters.” Alderleaf Wilderness College: Nature & Wilderness Survival School. Alderleaf Wilderness College, 2013. Web. 13 Nov. 2013. The author demonstrates detailed information and techniques in order to build a shelter. Knight points out useful tips in searching for the right location and how to get there. With the great amounts of natural resources in the wild, the author poses many innovative ideas to makeshift a well-working shelter. The article offers precisely written advice to ensure efficient survival.…
The animal hide was thick and after many layers on the outsides of the shelters along with on the ground their homes could keep away the cold arctic air. The air is very dry during the cold months which made it easier to dry out the animal hides. To help the hides dry faster they would get placed on a line or on the sides of the shelter in the view of the sun. Once the hides were dry they could be used for many things such as clothing, bags, and baskets. Since this was such a remote area many times they would wrap their belonging in large pieces of hide and attach line so they could be used like a…
When it came to survival the newer species was the more efficient. The Neolithic people lived in mud brick homes that were supported by wood. The Paleolithic people lived mainly in caves or huts/tents made out of skins. The Paleolithic people had to be more flexible in where they…
During the Paleolithic age man lived a nomadic lifestyle in small tribal or clan communities. Heavily relying on hunting, fishing, and gathering for their resources and necessities. They were known for making “simple shell necklaces to human and animal forms in ivory, clay, and stone to monumental paintings, engravings, and relief sculptures covering the huge…
I pulled my beanie securely on my head as I crouched down on a sturdy tree branch. My hunting knife reflected the dim light of the moon. It glinted letting my prey know I was there. "Yeah, I love a good chase!" I jumped from branch to branch as I chase my target. His brown hair was starting to gray but he ran pretty good for someone in their late forties. At least that's what boss lady said. I jumped down quietly as the man began to get tired. He began huffing as his pace slowed. I knocked into his back sending him into a tree. His chest heavily moved with his ragged breaths. I slowly approached him as I pulled my hunting knife back out. "Let play," I said in a deadpan tone. My eyes lost their light as I stared down at him.…
Being part of a Hunter-gathering society can be frustrating sometimes because if the hunters have no luck than the tribe doesn’t eat. They also don’t live very luxury because there houses have to be light enough to carry (they’re usually small tents made out of straw, wood, and cow hide. Plus this society also has to move with the animals or they will starve.…
The best feeling in the world is knowing that in the set three minutes you are given, the only obligation that you have is to win the fight you are about to walk into. “Eye of the Tiger” constantly plays over and over in my head and the only thing I’m making eye contact with is the opponent’s eyes. From the way that his feet are planted I already know that this will be an easy take down, I won’t need more than two minutes. The glare of the lights hits the cherry red on his gloves as I take each jab he throws in my direction. I follow up with my jabs twice as hard to his upper body; unfortunately all I’m hitting are his arms because he knows how to block, and he knows how to block well.…
In these cave man days, when we were hunted and ‘hunters’ the fight or flight response served to prepare the body to either ‘fight e.g.the tiger’ or run from it !…
When the people were hunting they lived in teepees. The teepee always faced east. The outside of the teepee was decorated with paintings of animals, stars, or other objects. To build the teepee the women took long sticks and stuck them in the ground in the form of a circle. They leaned the poles together at the top. The poles were fastened with hides. The poles were covered with buffalo hides. Two longer poles were attached to the top corners.…
The prehistoric era was traced to be the period before the emergence of writing. Historical accounts were credited to early Anthropologists and Archeologists who studied fossils of early humans and other cultural artifacts. Scholars believed that humans descended from the hominids because they showed distinct characteristics that differentiated them from the animals living during that time. Their means of adaptation to the environment were far more advanced and sophisticated compared to other animals. They did not only adjust through biological evolution but developed through cultural adaptation using intellectual and social skills. They formed small, nomadic bands that focused on hunting large animals using weapons made from stones or woods, gathering of wild foods including nuts and reproducing offspring that will eventually pass on their practices. Their ultimate goal was to survive.…
Architecture helps archaeologists reconstruct the houses the people lived in and what material they built the houses from. It gives us insight of how the people of the different civilizations lived and whether or not some were higher up on the social chain than others depending on the size of the house. Architecture and the sites of the houses help show how human cultures transformed from the Paleolithic Era to the Bronze Age. When human beings were first getting settling in Greece, they were nomadic people, meaning they did not live in one location permanently. During the Paleolithic and Mesolithic Periods, early humans lived in caves most notably the Franchthi Cave. This cave has been home to humans living through the Paleolithic through the Neolithic periods. The Franchthi cave is a true cavern, not a shallow rock shelter like the others during the Paleolithic era. The Franchthi cave is located on the side of a mountain in the Peloponnesus, in southern Greece a good distance away from the coast line. During the Paleolithic era occupation was small and periodic meaning that at the time the Franchthi cave was used for seasonal activities. The cave shows that early humans, did not create their own forms of housing, but instead used naturally forms of shelter to accommodate their living styles. Then when the period shifts to the late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, we start to see humans forming permanent villages. Sites at…
A shelter can range from a "natural shelter"; such as a cave or a fallen-down tree, to an intermediate form of man-made shelter such as a debris hut, a tree pit shelter, or a snow cave, to completely man-made structures such as a tarp, tent, or a longhouse.…
A shelter can range from a "natural shelter"; such as a cave or a fallen-down (cracked but not split) thickly-foliaged tree, to an intermediate form of man-made shelter such as a debris shelter, a ditch dug next to a tree log and covered with foliage, or a snow cave, to completely man-made structures such as a tarp, tent, or house.…