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Stone Age Achievements By Oli Millar

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Stone Age Achievements

By Oli Millar

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The Making of ToolsThe development of tools were one of the major achievements of the stone age. They were a big part of the transition between nomads and farmers. The tools usually had a wooden handle and sometimes a flint blade, or even just a big flat stone. Axes were useful for nomads and farmers, they could kill a deer or dig holes for seeds.One of the main advantages of tools is

they are quite easy to make or at least find materials for. So when broken can be remade quite easily. Another advantage is the weight a tool can be light and then taken with you and left behind.

The importance of the development of tools is massive. When people started to learn how to grow crops the tools were one of the things that helped them most. They could make strenuous jobs much easier and sometimes even make them possible, such as with cutting trees down.

A stone age axe.

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The Domestication of AnimalsThe domestication of animals means when people start to keep livestock such as cows or pigs. This development came at around the same time as the agricultural revolution. Animals were kept in a field in the summer but when the weather got colder they were moved into a barn.

This way of keeping animals had many advantages. One was if there was a bad harvest and your surpluses had run out, you could butcher an animal for the meat. Or live off the things the animals produce, such as eggs and milk. And it meant you didn’t have to hunt animals for miles but always had a supply of meat.

The importance of learning how to keep animals was great. People could live off a diet of berries, meat and crops with surpluses. As more animals were killed there would probably have been extra things like leather and bones which could be used for specializing in clothes and other useful items.

A painting of the herding of a cow.

Stone age barn.