Stone Age Hunting and Fishing

Stone Age Hunting and Fishing

By. Christopher Massini

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What The Animal was Used for

• The Antler of an animal is very hard and flexible and can be used as a hammer or for small game hunting and fishing
• The tongue and nose and back of the eyes were a rich store of fat and the tongue and brain are rich in protein.
• All of the meat was eaten unless it was spoiled and was a very rich source of nutrients and protein

Stone Age Fishing Techniques

• One of the fishing techniques is to throw a net into the water and to trap fish in it
• Another technique was that they would stand in the water with there hands in it and catch fish
• The most common one was that they would use spears to stab or throw at fish

What a Fish was used for

• Fish were mainly used only for food
• Fish guts or left over were used as bait
• Fish were also reused to catch larger fish if they were small

Stone Age Hunting Techniques

• One very common hunting Technique was a drive
• Another technique that was most common was to stalk and track what ever it was they were hunting
• At times they would wipe mud and dirt on their face to camouflage them
• For traps hunters would at times dig wholes and plant spears and sharp limbs to stab into a animal that falls in the whole so it bleeds out and dies
• Some hunters that did not have tools and was hunting small game would hunt with just their hands

Stone age Hunting Tools

Stone Age Hunters

• Stone age Hunting tools were mostly made from stone or bone
• If it was a large kill the hunter or hunters that made the kill would usally use all of it
• Hunters mostly used spears and alot of the time the spears had barbs on the ends of the spear
• For smaller animals they used sling shots
• They used stone axes and stone throwing axes
• Hunters would also use ropes with rocks on both ends to trip up animals
• They would also use nets to catch their prey

• Stone age hunters were some of the most important people in the tribe
• The were very respected and largely rewarded when the got a kill
• Hunters were not the most important people but were the providers
• Each hunters kill depending on how big it was got a reward

Stone Age Hunting

• Stone age hunting is where all hunting techniques used today has come from
• The hunters in the stone age used techniques like stalking, drives, and different ways that they can get very close to the animal
• The tools they used were mostly made from stone but occasionally would be made out of animal bone or the antlers on a larger animal
• Stone age hunters would usually hunt naked, it is thought to be because it made them more nimble and made them feel closer to the animal
• In some hunting techniques they would use a pelt from an animal and drape it over them to disguise themselves as an animal to get closer to it and the herd and seem as if it is one of them

Stone age Hunter Day Life

Stone Age Fishing Tools

• Stone age Hunters were believed to have hunted almost every day
• They tended to hunt in groups
• When the hunters brought back a kill they would gut it skin it and leave the rest for the weomen
• Depending on the kill hunters would give the kill to his family or to the tribe

• The most common tool used was a spear with barb tips
• One very challenging way was to catch them with your hands
• Near the end of the stone age era few people started to create bows and shoot fish with them
• Hunters would also use nets to bring in more then one at once and would then kill them with a knife
• Some would have a stone hook or bone hook on the end of just a string and put a piece of meet in the end

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Stone Age Fishing

• The fishing pole was never used in stone age time, only spears and bare hands
• Fishing was considered the easiest was to harvest meat and was a job that was generally given to younger boys that are not yet ready for hunting
• Unlike animals, fish were only used for their meet, there bones were never big enough to be made into tools and the skin could not be preserved or made use of at that time

Stone Age Hunting

• The stone age period lasted about 3.4 million years
• The most important time in the stone age was between 6000 BCE to 2000 BCE which was the beginning of metal working
• During most of the stone age, humans used stones, bones and wood to make tools and shelter

This source will help in learning how tools were made and what they were used for.

• Stone age hunting, fishing and gathering was how humans survived for 3.4 million years
• Only men were the hunters
• Hunting was how they received a source of meat
• Stone age fishing produced food and bait
• Hunting was the most important aspect of a humans life in the stone age

Books:

Clark, Grahame. The Stone Age Hunters. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. Print.

This source tells what tools and objects the stone age hunters used. It talks about how stone age hunters would make their tools to hunt and how they would use them. It tells what tools are from what time periods and what they are made of. It shows you were there different tools have been found and were they were used.

This source makes me wonder how they created these tools.

Smith, Christopher. Late Stone Age Hunters of the British Isles. London: Routledge, 1992. Print.

This book tells about techniques the stone age hunters used to hunt and fish. This book also explains how they made what they needed for witch techniques. It also says how they were successful and who in their clan would hunt or be the lead hunter. It tells how they used techniques and used them on what animals.

This source will help me tell how they hunted animals and used what for witch hunting techniques.

This source makes me wonder how many different hunting strategies they had and for what animals.

Websites:

Creswell Crags Museum and Visitor Centre." Food and Hunting. Creswell Crags Museum & Heritage Centre, n.d. Web. 28 Jan. 2015.

This site tells me what all parts of the animal is used for. It says witch animal bones and antlers are used for witch hunting and fishing tools or anything else. It shows a diagram of animals and tells you how each part of the animal is used. It also shows how they survive through hunting and fishing and what they do once they harvest the animal.

This source will help me explain what the animal is used for, and witch parts are more important.

This source makes me wonder witch animals were hunted more and why, what they were hunted for.

Jensen, Tania L. "Stone Age Hunters Liked Their Carbs." Sciencenordic.com. N.p., 4 Jan. 2013. Web. 28 Jan. 2015.

This source shows what the average stone age hunter ate and what they did to cook it. It shows what they used certain parts of the animal for. It also tells what parts of the animals were preferred by the hunters and what parts were cooked or not eaten. It also tells how they got to be so fit and how built they were from what they got from the animals.

This source will help me tell what animals were preferred and what was the main part of their diet.

This makes me wonder why we are so picky now and why we don’t eat the way the stone age hunter did if they were so healthy.

Website:

GIBBONS, Ann. "The Evolution of Diet." National Geographic. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Jan. 2015.

This site will help me find out how and what Stone age hunters and fishers ate and how they would eat it. It will also tell me how they cooked it or if they ate it raw. This website also tells me and explains what type of nutrients they consumed. It also tells me if people died from deceases or what happened with there nutrition.

This source will help me figure out how healthy their diet was.

This makes me wonder how they did not die off from diseases in animal flesh and if they could tell wether the animal was sick or not.

Magazine:

”World's Oldest Spears - Archaeology Magazine Archive." World's Oldest Spears - Archaeology Magazine Archive. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Feb. 2015.

This site tells about when the tools and weapons were made and if they advanced or not. It also says how the tools were made and what the tools were made of and what was used to shape the tools. It also shows the different type of ways the tools were used to hunt and fish, and how they were advanced and why they advanced.

This source will help me figure out how tools were made and what for.

This makes me wonder how they shaped the tools and what they used the different tools for.

Online Database:

"SOCIAL STUDIES." Globe & Mail [Toronto, Canada] 16 May 2011: L6. World History in Context. Web. 11 Feb. 2015.

This source shows me the time periods of the hunting techniques and how it was done and were. It also tells me were many hunting techniques and tools were made and originated. It tells me were tools weren't used and why and what they were used for their and who made them.

This source will help me tell were tools originated.

This source makes me wonder why certain tools and weapons originated in certain areas.

"Oldest Tools Are Traced To Africa." New York Times 28 Apr. 1995. World History in Context. Web. 11 Feb. 2015.

This source tells me when the first hunting tools and techniques were created during the stone age. It also tells me when the oldest fishing tools were created. It tells me were the oldest stone age hunting an fishing tools came from and what they were made out of and what was first hunted with them. Also who first used them and if they were used for hunting and fishing or for protection

This source will help me tell when were and how the first hunting and fishing tools were created.

This makes me wonder what was made for protection and what was made for hunting and fishing or for protection.