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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.

 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.

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...

 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...

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...

Homo heidelbergensis builds the first hut. The earliest evidence for built shelter appears to have been constructed by Homo heidelbergensis, who lived in Europe between around 800,000 B.C.E. and 200,000 B.C.E. Anthropologists are uncertain whether these were ancestors of Homo sapiens (humans) or Homo neanderthalensis (Neanderthals) or both. At the french site of Terra  Amata, which dates back around 400,000 years, archeologists, have found what they believe to be the  foundations of large oval huts.One of these shows evidence of fire in a hearth,although other archeologists postulate that natural process could be responsible. Archeology on sites from hundreds of thousands of years ago is complicated.Claims of the discovery of  built shelters in Japan from more than 500,000 years ago were discredited in 2000. In fact ,all evidence for humans in Japan before 35,000 years ago is currently questionable. We do know that our ancestors spent time in caves for hundreds of thousan...

  Homo erect us harnesses lightening. Fire is an essential tool, controlled of which helped to start the human race on its path to civilization.The original source of fire was probably lightening,and for generation blazes ignited in this manner remained the only source of fire. Initially Peking Man,who lived around 500,000 B.C.E.,who believed to be the earliest user of fire,but evidence uncovered in Kenya in 1981,and the South Africa in 1988,suggests that the earliest controlled use of fire by hominids dates from 1,420,000 years ago.fires were kept alive permanently because of the difficulty of reigniting them,being allowed to burn by day and damped down at night, The first human to control fire used it to keep warm,cook their food,and ward off predators.It also enabled them to survive in regions previously too cold for human habitation.They also used it in "fire drives" to force animals or enemies out of hiding.Controlled fire was important in clearing forest for road ways,g...

EARLY HUMANKIND USHERS IN THE AGE OF INVENTIONS                             The very first human invention consists of sharp flints, found and used in their natural state by primitive peoples,who then went on to purposely sharpen stones.The practice reaches back to the very dawn of humankind;stone tools found in 1969 in Kenya are estimated be 2,600,000 years old. The principal types of tools,which appeared in the paleolithic period ,and varied in size and appearance,are known as core,flake and blade tools.The core tools are the largest and primitive and were made by working on a fist-sized piece of rock or stone with a similar rock and knocking large flakes off one side to produce a sharp crest.This was a general-purpose implement used for hacking .pounding,or cutting.Eventually,thinner and sharper cores tools were developed,which were more useful much later,Especially during the last 10,000 years of the Stone Age ,ot...