STONE AGE TEECHNOLOGY

EARLIEST COMMUNITIES

• Lived almost entirely in the small nomadic communities.
• surviving on his skills in hunting and fishing.
• developed in tropical latitudes, especially in Africa.
• moved out hence into the subtropical regions and eventually into the landmass of Eurasia.

NEOLITIC REVOLUTION

• Increased in population
  
• Bigger communities
• Begginings of town life
• sometimes called as Neolithic Revolution

Primitive man used: wood, bone, fur, leaves, grasses

Stone

• material that gives its name and technology unity.
• became tools only when they were shaped delibarately for specific purposes and for this to be done efficiently.

Flint

• Became a very popular stone for this purpose, although fine sandstones and certain volcanic rocks were also widely used.

TOOLS AND WEAPONS

• stone headed spear
• the harpoon
• bow and arrow

OTHER DEVICES INVENTED

• Potter's Wheel, driven by kilks from the operator
• Wheels, gave continuous rotary movement in one direction
• Drill and the Lathe, derived from the bow and had the effect of spinning the drill piece.

FOOD PRODUCTION

• Paleolithic, gathering fishing and hunting
• Neolithic, agriculture, animal husbandry

BUILDING TECHNIQUES

• Impressive structure were created
• primarily tombs
• burial mounds and religious edifices
• sun-dried bricks for domestic housing

MANUFACTURING

• Grinding corn ( Quern ) - transport and communication
• Baking Clay ( Pottery)
• Spinning and weaving textiles
• Dyeing, fermenting and distilling
• gold, silver, copper, tin
• domestication of animals
• dugout canoe and brick-bark canoe