If you are interested in Paleontology or Archaeology then "Everyday Life In Prehistoric Times," is for you.
The author's name is Marjorie & C.
H.
B.
Quenell.
This book was very interesting depicting the lives of people who lived from the "Stone Age" all the way to the "Early Iron Age.
" Chapter one tells how to date prehistoric sites by geology.
Archaeologists are called pick and shovel historians.
They investigate lives of ancient people by the remains they leave behind.
Archaeologist must dig for information about Prehistoric man because there is no written record of them.
All the objects that are found in a grave by an Archaeologist are associated with one another in an archaeological sense.
In the Stone Age no one reads or writes.
As a means of recording their calculations they would do it by the waning of the moon.
They may also have done it by the season's.
During the Stone Age the climate kept going from hot to cold and these changes are recorded in the earth's surface and geologists can date the deposits in which the changes are recorded.
Chapter two tells of flint instruments, hand axes, early hunting, clothing, the Mammoth, the Java-Ape Man, life in the earliest times, the Tasmanians, and life in the Acheulean times.
Stone tools are nearly always the only clues we have to the existence of the earliest men of the Stone Age.
Stone tools would have had all kinds of uses.
They can be made as sharp as a razor, and they could have been used as knives, dig up pignuts, or to shape a stick.
Flint is extraordinarily hard to work with.
They used flint to also fashion arrow heads and hand axes.
Arrows and spears were used for early hunting as well.
They hunted many Wild animals such as the hippopotamus, rhinoceros, the sabre-toothed tiger, and the horse.
They made clothing and items they needed to use.
They also used it for shelter covering.
Chapter two has many interesting facts that anyone would find interesting.
Chapter three tells about the first cave-dwellers.
This includes the Neanderthal Man, the Bolas, the Australian Aborigines, clothing and ornament, food gathering, relatives and society, and the beginning of magic.
This chapter was most interesting.
Chapter four talks about Artists of the Old Stone Age.
This chapter entails blade tools, the arrival of Homo Sapiens, Aurignac tools, Aurignac hunting, Aurignac paintings and carvings, painting and magic, Soultrean arrows and needles, distribution of Madeleine man, harpooning fish, Eskimo seal hunting, drawing of huts and tents, Eskimo houses, animal art, engravings and sketch-books and art and science.
Chapter five talks about the Mesolithic Period or the End of the Old Stone Age.
This includes the Azilian man, talks about the Oban Deposits, the last hunters, England in Neolithic times.
Chapter six talks about the New Stone Age.
This chapter entails Neolithic Geography, talks about later Prehistoic races, Neolithic flint mines, flint and stone tools, talks about Neolithic houses, how to make fire, pot moulding, long barrows, Megaliths and Rock houses, Megalith building, Stonehenge, and Woodhenge.
Chapter seven talks about the Bronze Age.
In this chapter you will read about Bronze smelting, the Bronze spear, Heathery Burn Cave, Woven cloth, weaving combs, Chariot wheels, ploughing with oxen, round barrow pottery, the burial of Hector, Bryn Calli DHU, Bronze Age Geography, land and sea voyages, and trade and trade routes.
Chapter eight talks about the Early Iron Age.
In this chapter you will read about lake villages, the discovery of Glastonbury, Glastonbury huts, village life, metal working, development of the Brooch, the fall of Glastonbury, hill forts, water supply and dew ponds, hill fort society and warfare, ships and swords, chariot burials, wheel made pottery, trackways and settlements, currency, and talks about the Druids.
If any of this interests you then this book is for you.
I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to know about the past.
The author's name is Marjorie & C.
H.
B.
Quenell.
This book was very interesting depicting the lives of people who lived from the "Stone Age" all the way to the "Early Iron Age.
" Chapter one tells how to date prehistoric sites by geology.
Archaeologists are called pick and shovel historians.
They investigate lives of ancient people by the remains they leave behind.
Archaeologist must dig for information about Prehistoric man because there is no written record of them.
All the objects that are found in a grave by an Archaeologist are associated with one another in an archaeological sense.
In the Stone Age no one reads or writes.
As a means of recording their calculations they would do it by the waning of the moon.
They may also have done it by the season's.
During the Stone Age the climate kept going from hot to cold and these changes are recorded in the earth's surface and geologists can date the deposits in which the changes are recorded.
Chapter two tells of flint instruments, hand axes, early hunting, clothing, the Mammoth, the Java-Ape Man, life in the earliest times, the Tasmanians, and life in the Acheulean times.
Stone tools are nearly always the only clues we have to the existence of the earliest men of the Stone Age.
Stone tools would have had all kinds of uses.
They can be made as sharp as a razor, and they could have been used as knives, dig up pignuts, or to shape a stick.
Flint is extraordinarily hard to work with.
They used flint to also fashion arrow heads and hand axes.
Arrows and spears were used for early hunting as well.
They hunted many Wild animals such as the hippopotamus, rhinoceros, the sabre-toothed tiger, and the horse.
They made clothing and items they needed to use.
They also used it for shelter covering.
Chapter two has many interesting facts that anyone would find interesting.
Chapter three tells about the first cave-dwellers.
This includes the Neanderthal Man, the Bolas, the Australian Aborigines, clothing and ornament, food gathering, relatives and society, and the beginning of magic.
This chapter was most interesting.
Chapter four talks about Artists of the Old Stone Age.
This chapter entails blade tools, the arrival of Homo Sapiens, Aurignac tools, Aurignac hunting, Aurignac paintings and carvings, painting and magic, Soultrean arrows and needles, distribution of Madeleine man, harpooning fish, Eskimo seal hunting, drawing of huts and tents, Eskimo houses, animal art, engravings and sketch-books and art and science.
Chapter five talks about the Mesolithic Period or the End of the Old Stone Age.
This includes the Azilian man, talks about the Oban Deposits, the last hunters, England in Neolithic times.
Chapter six talks about the New Stone Age.
This chapter entails Neolithic Geography, talks about later Prehistoic races, Neolithic flint mines, flint and stone tools, talks about Neolithic houses, how to make fire, pot moulding, long barrows, Megaliths and Rock houses, Megalith building, Stonehenge, and Woodhenge.
Chapter seven talks about the Bronze Age.
In this chapter you will read about Bronze smelting, the Bronze spear, Heathery Burn Cave, Woven cloth, weaving combs, Chariot wheels, ploughing with oxen, round barrow pottery, the burial of Hector, Bryn Calli DHU, Bronze Age Geography, land and sea voyages, and trade and trade routes.
Chapter eight talks about the Early Iron Age.
In this chapter you will read about lake villages, the discovery of Glastonbury, Glastonbury huts, village life, metal working, development of the Brooch, the fall of Glastonbury, hill forts, water supply and dew ponds, hill fort society and warfare, ships and swords, chariot burials, wheel made pottery, trackways and settlements, currency, and talks about the Druids.
If any of this interests you then this book is for you.
I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to know about the past.