Mesolithic People Vs Paleolithic People
How Mesolithic People Were More Advanced Than Palaeolithic People.
The Mesolithic people were more advanced than the Palaeolithic people in many ways, including weaponry, lifestyle, hunting etc.
The Palaeolithic era lasted between 2.5 million B.C to 12 thousand B.C, to when the last ice glaciers melted and agriculture began, bringing in the Mesolithic era, which lasted between 12 thousand B.C to 8 thousand B.C.
Even though the Palaeolithic had the longer era and discovered and created stone tools, Mesolithic people had more advanced tools than the previous stone age. Using materials such as: deer antler, animals bones and little pieces of flint, known as microliths. Evidence shows that the antlers of the deer were used for tools that possibly have been used for digging. Animal bones were turned into tools for hunting purposes such as hooks for fishing, whereas the microliths were used to provide light weight tips for arrows and spears. …show more content…
Palaeolithic people however, created and were the first people to use stone, bone, and wood tools, creating things such as bolas, awls, burins and choppers.
The earlier Paleolithic people used variety of stone tools, some including hand axes and choppers. Although they’ve appeared to have used the axes more often, discussion varies whether they used axes for cutting wood and such, or if they threw them, serving as “killer frisbees”, at creatures or herds, to stun one of them for hunting. They might’ve even been used as self defense weaponry against predators.
Paleolithic tools such as the chopper or scrapers were most likely used for skinning and/or butchering different animals and creatures, due to the sharps tips of this
tools.
Metholithic people had similar tools to the Paleolithic, but with a few differences, such as the Tranchet adze, used for carpentry to make things likes boats, fishing platforms or maybe even houses. However, in some cases, Mesolithic people carried on using past tools, such as Scrapers to skin animals and use their skin for clothing, tents, rugs etc.
A lot of flint tools were used by the Metholithic people, whether they attached them to other materials or left it as it is.Most pieces of flint were sharpened on the edges, possible used as knifes for animal hunting or possibly gardening.
“Hunter-Gatherers” were the term of the Mesolithic people who gathered the foods for their groups. The Mesolithic people were the nomadic kind, letting them travel around in small tribes, hunting and collecting different foods from different environments. Hunter gatherers were nomadic, unlike the Palaeolithic people, and travelled a lot, meaning they had no permanent home and lived in tents usually made of animal skin from animals they have previously hunted and skinned using scrapers and such.
Animals were very important in the Mesolithic lifestyle as well, even though small beasts such as cattle, pigs, horses and deer, were part of their main diet, but fishing for eel, salmon and trout, the Mesolithic brought things like dug-out canoes, paddles and log boats, came into development.
Even if Palaeolithic people created tools and having their own lifestyle, the Mesolithic people developed the ways of the previous age, advancing them and creating from it.
The Mesolithic people were more advanced than the Palaeolithic people in many ways, including weaponry, lifestyle, hunting etc.
The Palaeolithic era lasted between 2.5 million B.C to 12 thousand B.C, to when the last ice glaciers melted and agriculture began, bringing in the Mesolithic era, which lasted between 12 thousand B.C to 8 thousand B.C.
Even though the Palaeolithic had the longer era and discovered and created stone tools, Mesolithic people had more advanced tools than the previous stone age. Using materials such as: deer antler, animals bones and little pieces of flint, known as microliths. Evidence shows that the antlers of the deer were used for tools that possibly have been used for digging. Animal bones were turned into tools for hunting purposes such as hooks for fishing, whereas the microliths were used to provide light weight tips for arrows and spears. …show more content…
Palaeolithic people however, created and were the first people to use stone, bone, and wood tools, creating things such as bolas, awls, burins and choppers.
The earlier Paleolithic people used variety of stone tools, some including hand axes and choppers. Although they’ve appeared to have used the axes more often, discussion varies whether they used axes for cutting wood and such, or if they threw them, serving as “killer frisbees”, at creatures or herds, to stun one of them for hunting. They might’ve even been used as self defense weaponry against predators.
Paleolithic tools such as the chopper or scrapers were most likely used for skinning and/or butchering different animals and creatures, due to the sharps tips of this
tools.
Metholithic people had similar tools to the Paleolithic, but with a few differences, such as the Tranchet adze, used for carpentry to make things likes boats, fishing platforms or maybe even houses. However, in some cases, Mesolithic people carried on using past tools, such as Scrapers to skin animals and use their skin for clothing, tents, rugs etc.
A lot of flint tools were used by the Metholithic people, whether they attached them to other materials or left it as it is.Most pieces of flint were sharpened on the edges, possible used as knifes for animal hunting or possibly gardening.
“Hunter-Gatherers” were the term of the Mesolithic people who gathered the foods for their groups. The Mesolithic people were the nomadic kind, letting them travel around in small tribes, hunting and collecting different foods from different environments. Hunter gatherers were nomadic, unlike the Palaeolithic people, and travelled a lot, meaning they had no permanent home and lived in tents usually made of animal skin from animals they have previously hunted and skinned using scrapers and such.
Animals were very important in the Mesolithic lifestyle as well, even though small beasts such as cattle, pigs, horses and deer, were part of their main diet, but fishing for eel, salmon and trout, the Mesolithic brought things like dug-out canoes, paddles and log boats, came into development.
Even if Palaeolithic people created tools and having their own lifestyle, the Mesolithic people developed the ways of the previous age, advancing them and creating from it.