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SEWING (C.25,000 B.C.E.)

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 CLOTHING IS FITTED USING A NEEDLE AND THREAD. The history of sewing is closely allied to the history of tools. The earliest needles ever discovered date from the paleolithic era, around 25,000 B.C.E.Key finds from that period include needles in southwest France and near Moscow in Russia. These were made of ivory or bone, with an eyelet gouged out. Some have been found alongside the remains of foxes and hares that were used for their fur. Sewing allowed our early ancestors to make clothing more closely tailored to the human body, improving its insulation and comfort, as well as inviting decoration. Early scraps of cloth found in France and Switzerland have included decorative seeds or animal teeth sewn on by a thread, applied perhaps with the aid of fishbones or thorns. Native Americans sewed with the tips of agave leaves. Embroidery-complex, decorative needlework appeared in Bronze Age Egypt and India. In China silk was being sewn and embroidered in the same era. Protective thimbl...
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SHARP STONE BLADE (C 30,000 B.C.E.)

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 STONE AGE HUMANS PROGRESS TO SHARPENING THEIR TOOLS AND WEAPONS. The use of stone instruments more than two million years ago heralded what we call the stone age and the very origins of humankind. While it is impossible to date when distinctly worked stone blades first appeared in the world, It seems to have occurred circa 30,000 B.C.E. The technique that evolved to create sharp stones is now called lithic reduction. this involves the use of an implement to strike a stone block to break off flakes. Such flakes will be naturally sharp and be turned into a range of useful tools and weapons such as scrapers, scythes, knives arrowheads, or spear points. Some early toolmakers may also have used what was left of the stone block to make ax heads.  After the end of the last Ice Age 10,000 years ago, the period was characterized by increasingly sophisticated stone tools with multiple uses. Other tools were produced using blades made by knapped flint or obsidian, a type of natural...
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DRILL (c.35,000 B.C.E.)

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  Early humans learn how to bore small holes. It is thought that early man used a drill-perhaps a modified sphere-to pierce wood and animal skins. Muchlater the wood workers of ancient Egypt refined this technique by making any necessary with a bow drill. Adopted from the fire-stick,It had a cord wrapped round it and was held taut with a bow. Holding the drill vertically, the operator moved the bow backward and forward,pressing downward on alternate turns ,with an idle return stroke.The Romans replaced the bow drill with the auger,but the bit froze between turns,It was not untill the middle ages that use of the carpenter's brace made continuous rotation of the drill possible. ALSO CHECKOUT; https://theancientinvention.blogspot.com/2021/10/tally-stick-c35000-bce.html   https://theancientinvention.blogspot.com/2021/10/fish-hook-c35000-bce.html THANKYOU.
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TALLY STICK (c.35,000 B.C.E.)

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 COUNTING MAKES ITS DEBUT IN SWAZILAND. Tally sticks or tallies are batons of bone,ivory,wood or stone into which notches are made as a means of recording numbers or even messages. The archaeological and historical records are rich in tallies,with the lebombo bone as the earliest example.Found in a cave in the lebombo mountains in Swaziland and made from a baboons fiabula,it dates back to 35,000 B.C.E. Its marks suggest that it is a lunar phase counter,indicating an appreciation of math far beyond simple counting. The notches would span the sticks width which subsequently would be split so that both halves had that same marketing, To avoid forgeries.The halves differed in length,the longer half,or stock was the person making the payment,hence 'stockholder' and the shorter half or foil,for the recipient  of the money or goods. CHECKOUT; https://theancientinvention.blogspot.com/2021/10/fish-hook-c35000-bce.html THANK YOU.
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FISH HOOK (C.35,000 B.C.E.)

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Early humans discover how to retain their caught fish.  The major problem with dating inventions earlier than the written word is that there are no first -hand  accounts documenting their conception or use. paleoarcheologists have the difficult task of man based on scraps of physical evidence left behind by our ancient ancestors .The fishhook is one such ingenious conception of early man and is probably more important to the success of humans than most of us would suspect. Over thousands of years the technology of fishhooks has evolved to optimize prey attraction,retention,and retrieval.The very earliest fishhooks of all are thought to have been made from wood. although, being more perishable than those of bone or shell,very few examples of these primitive hooks have  survived .Wood might seem much too buoyant a material to be ideal for catching fish,but actually wooden hooks were used until the  1960s for catching species such as burbot. Gaining easy access to adequ...
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SPEAR (c.400,000 B.C.E.)

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 HUMAN LEARN TO KILL WITH SHARPENED  The earliest example of a sharpened wooden pole, or spear, comes from schoningen in Germany. There, eight spears were dated to 400,000 B.C.E.The ancient hominid hunters who sharpened each pole used a flint shaver to cut away the tip to form a point and then singed the tip in the fire to harden the wood, making it a more affective weapon. A similar technique was used by hunters in lehringen near Beremen in  Germany, where a complete spear was found embedded inside a mammoth skeleton ,suggesting some spears were used mainly for hunting rather than war fare or self-defense.Around the world,stone age people gradually learned how to work small stones or flints into tiny sharpened blades known s microliths for use as spear points.The greatest advance ,however, came with the development of mental working notably copper in Southeast Europe after 5000 B.C.E.followed by bronze,an alloy of copper and tin, around 2300 B.C.E.and then iron a mi...
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CLOTHING (c.400,000 B.C.E .)

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EARLY HUMANS COVERED THIER NAKEDNESS. Around 400,000 years ago, homo sapiens devised a solution to protect the vulnerable naked human body from the environment-clothes.Anthropologists believe the earliest clothing  was made from the fur of the hunted animals or leaves creatively wrapped around the body to keep out the cold, wind and rain. Determining the date of this invention is difficult.although sewing needles made from animal bone dating from about 30,000 B.C.E. have been found by archeologists. However, genetic analysis of human body lice reveals that they evolved 107,000 years ago,but further investigations placed their evolution a few hundred thousand years earlier. During the industrial revolution the textile industry was the first to be mechanized,enabling increasingly elaborate designs to be made at a faster rate. In the twenty first century, mechanization has allowed sophisticated practical clothing to be devised to protect us from dangerous such as extreme weather ,chem...
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