STONE AGE

STONE AGE

Stone age is a broad prehistoric time period during which humans widely used stone for toolmaking. Stone age divided into 3 :

• Paleolithicum  =  the oldest stone age
• Mezolithicum  =  not very modern stone age , middle age
• Neolithicum    =  the modernest stone age

Paleolithic era

       Tools:

•  Chopper ( to kill animal)
•  Flakes   ( to peel fruits )

       Way of living:

• Hunting and gathering 
• Nomadic living  ( move from one place to another place )

       The humans:

• Pithecanthropus Erectus ( not look like animal and human )

• Homo Soloensis and Wajakensis 

Mesolithic era 

    

       Tools:

•  Flakes ( to peel fruits )
•  Pebbles
•  Pottery Skill
•  Cave Painting

        Way of living:

•  Hunting and gathering
•  Semi-nomedic
•  Basics painting skills

        Humans:

•  Papua melanesoid

Neolithic era

       

        Tools:

•   Pebble
•   Pottery skills
•   Stone Chisels
•   Simple bead jewelries 

         Way of living:

•   live in houses
•   Neolithic revolution ( the changes of neolithic society from hunting  and gathering to farming )
•   Farming
•   Austronesia language

         Humans:

•   Proto-Malay
•   Melanesoid

Megalithic era was an era during Neolithic time in which people started to make building with big stone.

Megalithic era

Example of the products:

• Sarcophagus (a coffin made by stone ) 

• Menhir ( a monument made from stone )

• Dolmen ( tomb )