Stone Age

Ages:

Paleolithic:

• the earliest Stone Age (3.00,00 and 14-12000 anniversary)

Human Life:

• People liv in caves;
• develops hewing.

Mesolithic:

• 12-11000 years BC.

Changes:

• Ends Ice Age;
• The first people in American continent;
• Changing nature (occuring in decidous, coniferous forests);
• Animals (deers, squirrels, foxes, urchins, wild boar, etc.)
• New plants (berries, mushrooms, nuts, bird eggs);
• New hunting techniques (new tools);
• New hunting gear (circle, arrows);
• Important food plant for the collection;
• Fishing.

Human lining conditions and society:

Food collection:

• Hunting (individual or in groups);
• Collection of the feed plant;
• Fishing;

Location of resisdence:

• Hut and the cave;
• Settlements being bulit near rivers and lakes where waterfolw and focused was various animal herds;
• Oldest settlements in the short term - within a year to replace a number of resisdence;

Public:

• The oldest for of society was to feed the plant collectors and hunters group;
• characterized by equality, there is no division of labor;
• At the end of the Paleolithic group, raises the leader.

Leader responibilities:

• Public and living body;
• Prepare and manage the hunting;
• Distributed food;
• ensure the safety of the public and reulated conflicts.

Characteristic of thetribe:

• Join populated area;
• Common traditions;
• Common material and spiritual culture;
• Common language.