Food, Housing&Paintings of Stone Age

Food and Drink of Stone Age

Sources hunter-gatherers of the Paleolithic food were wild plants and animals taken from the environment. They loved animal offal, including livers, kidneys and brain. Large seeded legumes were part of the human diet long before the agricultural revolution, as evidenced archaeobotany in the Mousterian layers Kebara Cave, Israel. In addition, recent evidence indicates that humans processed and consumed wild cereal as far back as 23,000 years ago in the Upper Paleolithic.
Towards the end of the Wisconsin glaciation, there 15000-9000 years, mass extinction of megafauna like the woolly mammoth was held in Asia, Europe, North America and Australia. This was the first Holocene extinction event. It may be forced to change the eating habits of people of that era and the emergence of agricultural practices, plant-based foods also became a regular part of the diet. A number of factors have been proposed for extinction: certainly over-hunting, but deforestation and climate change. The net effect was to fragment the vast ranges required by large animals and extinguish the piecemeal in each fragment ..

Housing and Habitat

There are about 2 million years ago, Homo habilis is believed to have built the first man-made structure in East Africa, consisting of simple arrangements of stones to hold branches of trees in place. A similar stone circular arrangement believed to be about 380,000 years old was discovered at Terra Amata, near Nice, France. (Concerns about the meeting were raised, see Terra Amata). Several human habitats dating back to the Stone Age have been discovered around the world, including:
A tent-like structure in a cave near the Cave of Lazaretto, Nice, France.
A structure with a roof supported by wood, discovered in Dolni Vestonice, the Czech Republic, dating back to about 23,000 BC. The walls were made of packed clay blocks and stones.
Many huts made ​​of mammoth bones were found in Eastern Europe and Siberia. The people who made these huts were expert mammoth hunters. Examples have been found along the valley of the Dnieper River in Ukraine, almost Chernihiv, in Moravia, Czech Republic and southern Poland.
An animal skin tent dated to around 15,000 to 10,000 BC, in the Magdalenian, was discovered at Plateau Godfather, France.
Megalithic tombs, several rooms and dolmens, single room, were graves with a huge stone slab stacked over other similarly large stone slabs, they have been found throughout Europe and Asia and was built in the Neolithic and the Bronze Age.

The cave paintings

In Paleolithic, most of the animals were painted in those of the theory that have been used as food or strength represented as the rhinoceros or large cats (as in the Chauvet Cave). Signs such as dots were sometimes drawn. Scarce human representations are handprints and half-human/half-animal numbers. The Chauvet Cave in the Ardèche department in France, contains the most important of the Paleolithic cave paintings, dating from about 31,000 BCE. The Altamira cave paintings in Spain were done 14,000 to 12,000 BCE and show, among others, bisons. The Hall of Bulls at Lascaux, Dordogne, France, dates from about 15,000 to 10,000 BC.
The meaning of many of these paintings remains unknown. They may have been used for seasonal rituals. The animals are accompanied by signs that suggest use of magic possible. Arrow-like symbols in Lascaux are sometimes interpreted as calendar or almanac use, but the evidence remains interpretive.
Some scenes of the Mesolithic, however, may be seized and, therefore, to judge by their various modifications, are fairly clear. One of them is the scene of battle between gangs of archers. For example, "walking Warriors," a rock painting Cingle de la Mola, Castellón in Spain, dating from about 7.000 to 4.000 ECB represents about 50 archers into two groups walking or running to the stage to the other , each man carrying a bow in one hand and a handful of arrows in the other. A record of five men leads a band, one of which is a figure with a "high-crowned hat." In other scenes Moreover, men wear headgear and knee ornaments but otherwise fight naked. Some scenes show the dead and wounded, bristling with arrows. We remember Ötzi, a Copper Age mummy revealed by a glacier the Alpine merger, which collapsed with the loss of blood due to injury in the back arrow.