HA1125 WINTER 2008: Question #3, January 12 Prehistoric

Saturday, January 12, 2008

What developments mark the change from Old Stone Age to New Stone Age? How did this impact the development of architecture?

xXSweet_LunaXx said...: The main factors that mark and differentiate the Old Stone Age from the New Stone Age are that in the Old Stone Age or Paleolithic Era the hominids were hunters and their tools were made by stone, bones and wood. Their homes were caves but they had already discovered fire, also they lived in clans of 25 to 50. In the New Stone Age or Neolithic Era the hominids started farming and separating themselves from the clans and maintaining themselves in families, they had brick houses and their tools were made from metals. These changes helped the development of architecture because they began to find more settle places in which they could maintain and protect their families from animals, rain, cold, etc. Unlike the caves that were open they began to construct houses with bricks, doorways in the roof and ladders inside and out that way only they could get in. That helped them to cultivate crops and maintain cattle.

*Irma Villanueva (Lulu) 01/14/08; January 14, 2008 at 1:19 AM
xXSweet_LunaXx said...: *Reference Used: Wikipedia and National Geographic

Irma Villanueva (Lulu) 01/14/08; January 14, 2008 at 1:26 AM