Early humans

Early Huma

nsSubmitted By:

Priya Jaidka

Introduction

• Early Humans

• Their Shelter and clothes

• Tools

• Discovery of Fire

• Discovery of Wheel

• Questions to answer

Very Early HumansIt was during this time that the higher primates, including apes and early man, first appeared.

Life of early human was based on nature. Fruits, fish were parts of his food. He was not aware of fire. So, he ate rough meat.

There was a difference between apes and man. Early human-like hominids could stand upright. Apes could not.

Their Shelter and clothes

For saving himself from wild animals,

he started living in groups and

Started sleeping on trees or in caves.

Their Clothes were made of leaves,

animal hides, grass, etc. Those were

helpful for saving them from hot or

cold whether.

ToolsFor hunting of animals, they used stones,

bricks of trees. Early humans used

hammer stones to strike stone cores

and produce sharp flakes. Sometime

tools were made of bones and wood.

They used these tools to cut, pound

and access new foods including meat

from large animals.

This era was called

Paleolithic Era.

After Paleolithic Era, another era was started.

Which is known as Mesolithic Era. In this era,

level of human life was improved. They started

using sharp stone tools. they came to know

proper use of wood. They made wooden spears

for hunting large animals. They started reserving

food. They also started making shelters

(huts) made of wood, leaves.

Discovery of fire • Discovery of fire was a milestone in development of

human life. By rubbing the piece of stone against another piece of stone human discovered that the process creates fire. From this, human learnt burning fire and cooking food.

• They also started using fire for saving them from wild animals and to keep their bodies

warm during cold. Discovery

of fire made their life easy.

Discovery of Wheel

Before invention of wheel, early man has to walk on

foot. They would move to walking distance areas only.

They generally used tamed animals for riding to

covering longer distances with very less goods. They

lived in small groups in different places.

Before invention of wheel, these small

groups would remain isolated from other

groups. Later they started to carry their

burden on flat pieces of wood.

With the thought of rounded shaped

object can roll more easily on earth

surface thus it was the first time when

an idea of wheel came in existence.

Early human got idea to use wide

stem of the trees as a wheel.

This was a revolution in early man

life.

• Now they could easily make wheels with holes inside for joining the two. Later they made cart that could be carried by a bullock. Thus invention of wheel had changed the early man life, entirely.

Answer these Questions:

• Why early human ate rough meat?• Why early human started living in groups?• What kind of tools they used for hunting of animals?• What helped them to save from cold weather?

Presented by: Priya