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Inventions of the Neolithic Age

Cultural

The culture at the time was effected because cloth that is fairly durable, sizable, customizable and increasingly easy to produce, did not have to be used for clothes only. It had many uses:

- bags

- nets

- blankets

- protection (of stored items)

- protection (of people from the elements: if done tightly it was pretty waterproof)

We could adjust our ear to the task before us. Rather than bringing several, heavy, cumbersome hides when traveling, this cloth was light and compact. We could now go father with less man power extinguished. We could dress for the weather, we could keep things wrapped up and protected, but they wouldn't heat up as much as if they were prapped in animal fur.

Economic

Political

People who had superior skills in loom work were envied by others, and it was party status signs. (People in charge of tribes or nations wore certain kinds of clothing, whereas someone who is nearer to the fringes of society dresses differently, rather than everyone being in animal skins. This was marketable. Primary and Secondary industry was already in place as seen in the trade and barter system that existed, but this was a Tertiary form of business with involved the trading of a service for payment. This allowed a person who was incapable of hunting/gathering to make a living.

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There were few politics at the time, since politicians were mostly tribe leaders, but they wore distinguishing clothes. The loom produced a customized kind, that could be printed as well as colored. Nations would go to battle in different types of dress o distinguish and intimidate. They could not incorporate the versatility of the cloth made on a loom.

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The Loom - A neolithic invention

During the Neolithic age from 4,000 BC to 2,000 BC people were discovering several new ways to make their lives easier. One of these ways was using a loom as a method of making clothes from thread.

The production of thread was done on the loom, and it allowed the user to maneuver a bar up and down a set of strings to create a weaving pattern. This if done tightly enough and correctly could make a fairly durable piece of cloth. Looms were made of wood and sturdy string to hold the frame.

Social

The loom worked like this:

The social effect of the loom was that:

- People were able to start making their own garments, as suited to their own tastes.

Looms were not difficult to make, and were found in homes, people could customize what they made. They were used mostly by women, since women were typically more decorative, and had more free time at home. This facilitated the idea of women being synonymous with clothes and spending time at home.

- It became a demonstration of achievement of know how to properly use a loom.

Looms were not easy to use since the were in their first stages. Young women had to spend time learning to use them, rather than spending time outdoors with he brothers learning the skills now associated with men.

- People could make clothes with patterns.

This became more and more complicated as peoples skill using looms and the ease of use with a loom improved. Certain colors of string that were harder to obtain became prestigious, like purple and pure white. Others envied those who had those colors.

1.

A string to support the mobile part of the loom

The strings had weights on the ends on both sides to keep them hanging straight.

Strings.

2.

Hanging over top of the bar across the top of the H shape are strings. Strings was invented the era before the neolithic age, the Mesolithic age. These strings were ling enough to hang over the front and the back of the loom. The bar went over them.

weights

Repeat.

5.

One threads string through the strings that are hanging over the top of the loom, in this patten.

3.

Then slide the mobile bar across the loom upwards, straightening and tightening the woven string.

4.

String.

Inventions of the Neolithic Age

The Mill Stone

Social

Political

There was not a lot of politics going on at the time, but the dust created could be used for kids of sacrifice for those tribe who participated in that practice,

People had been boiling food to make it soft until this point. The mill allowed you to make the food easy to chew without having to get a fire going or water collected or a pot. All that was necessary was a two stones. For young children with undeveloped dental capacity, this could be very beneficial if you were taking your children on a trip, in which you weren't able, or weren't willing to boil water every time you ate.

It was also good for those who were old or sick, and hot food was abrasive to their more delicate digestive systems.

Added to this, you could turn roots that you once had to boil into you food or chop up for flavor, into a powder which could be mixed in or dusted over.

The mill stone was used by placing the produce to be ground in the curve of a stone, and used the second stone to grind and mash it into the larger stone until you have made it fine.

Economic

Cultural

Mills could later be used for seeds and grain to make flour. This could be used to barter with with someone who didn't have access to a mill or want capable of operating one. This was more income opportunity. It was also easier to accurately measure out dust than it was hunks of things, meaning more precise transaction.

The mill was operated by men usually, and when it was improved that was usually by the intelligence of the men who knew it's difficulties, however, it did come a very long way and by the Iron Age, it was far advanced. But the extent of it's efficiency in the Neolithic Age was that it became circular, and the grind process was less banging, and more a twist-grind:

Later

Originally

A bar across the top.

A mobile bar going across the loom that is attached using strings wrapped around the sides of the H shape as well a string hanging down from the top.

There is a construction in this shape:

A support in the middle holding the H - like shape sturdily upright.

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