EARLY HUMAN

In early days, human life was very hard. They lived in caves, wrap animal skin and tree leaves over their body and hunt animals for food.

Life style and food of early humans

Early humans lived in jungle and were afraid of bigger and stronger wild animals.

Earlier they had no house to live in and they climbed trees or hide themselves behind the stones. But it could provide them security from wild animals, rain, and winter and sun heat.

As food and clothes is the basic necessity of humans, they started wore tree leaves and animal skin over their body to protect themselves from cold and heat.

But they needed food also to live. In search of food, they had to go from one place to another. Earlier, they used to eat fruits from tree or roots of plants. Then they started hunting animals for food, for example the buffalos. Discovery of tools

In start, early man started killing small animals for food. But they could not kill large animals. So, they used a spear by kill animals. It was the first tool he had started using for his need. they improved it by making with bones and started using tools not only for hunting but also for cutting, digging and sewing.

They kept on improving their tools with time and requirements. They found that if they tied a sharp stone to a long piece of wood, they could throw it to a wild animal at a longer distance and they did not require go near to kill.

 Discovery of Fire

Early humans ate raw flesh as they did not know how to cook their food. They had seen broken out fire in jungle severally, but did not know how to make it and how they could use it, they were afraid of it like animals.  they learnt other uses of fire too. They found that they can light up their caves and protect their family from cold and wild animals using fire. They also came to know that the roasted food is much softer than raw one and also tastier to eat and this was the beginning of cooked food.

 It took millions of years for early humans to be civilized and during this period they did a lot of efforts to improve themselves. They do not know how to grow crops in fields and finding food was not easy.

Settlement of life

Life in jungle caves was very difficult for early humans as they regularly required to go far off river bank for drinking water. As water is the essential element for human life so, he decided living near river bank. Now they could get water easily and could use it for their various activities. They also knew that all animals come to river banks for drinking water, where they could be hunted easily. 

The fishes in river were their best food.

Discovery of farming                    

Early human began noticing things around them now and started thinking more about those things. They saw the seed in the soil grew into plants and got the idea of growing plants for their food. They started collecting and sowing seed in the soil thus start growing food for his family. This was the beginning of farming.
For farming, they used stones to dig the soil first. Later on they improved their tools using wood. Now they could give proper shape to their tools that were made up of wood and stones. 

Liliana Quiroz

Eight English level UPEC