important. Because I worked more on the construction/ volunteer aspect of getting the park up and running I did not observe how it served the people. But I did witness forms of discriminations, when building you rarely ever saw a girl with a power tool…
Wires You can paint the toilet paper tubes and label them to slip over extension cords or the tangle of wires behind your computer desk. Whether you get incredibly crafty or keep them plain and simple, toilet paper tubes are a great organizational tool to gather loose wires. Desk Items or Craft Supplies Instead of searching for the perfect pen holder or paper clip cup, you can create your own desk caddy. All you'll need is a few toilet paper tubes and an empty…
Little boys love frogs and they love to have a bedroom that brings the frog right to their bedside for fun. Creating the frog theme bedroom is not difficult and just takes a little imagination. In no time at all a little boys bedroom can come to life with these great bedroom ideas that all share a common theme-the frog! Begin the theme bedroom with a list of bedroom ideas that you can come up with. If you like animals such as the frog this should not be difficult to do. Common boys bedroom…
The Stone Age What is the Stone Age? The stone age was named Stone Age because the people in this time period used stone tools. It has two very like and very different time periods. They are called the Neolithic (new), and Paleolithic (old) eras. They have very diverse rituals and ways of life. Things like the way they access food, the homes they live in, the tools people used, and what they spent their time doing. Paleolithic Era The Paleolithic Era--A.K.A. Old Stone Age--was the first…
different tools and weapons that they made, to help them with their tasks. They were smart with making and using tools and weapons. They were the first people in the world to use stone tools to grind seeds, and also to introduce ground edges on cutting tools. The traditional tools included scrapers, digging sticks, knives and axes. And the traditional weapons were spears, shields, clubs and boomerangs. Knives were made of bones or stones they were very sharp, and they were also used as tools…
Paleolithic to Neolithic Culture The first part of the stone age was the Paleolithic culture, which begin around 750,000 BC. During the paleolithic culture tools were made. The first tool that was made was the Oldowan dating back to 2.5 - 1.2 million years ago. The homo habilis constructed this tool by using stone and beating off flakes of the stone. There were two types: flake tool and core tool, depending on what needed to be done. The second tool made was the Acheulean it dates back to 1.6…
Paleolithic period, also known as Old Stone Age, was a remarkable period that encompassed the creation and use of chipped stone tools that characterized the evolution of technology from the Oldowan to the Acheulian, Mousterian, and Upper Paleolithic periods. Early stone tools, known as chopper tools or hammer stones, were discovered by archaeologists at several sites in eastern and southern Africa. Using a technique called percussion flaking, hammer stone tools were used to remove flakes to…
There are two important sites where Lower Paleolithic tools were found and they are called Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 (“Toro-Moyano, Isidro”). Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 are located near the town of Orce in Spain. (“Toro-Moyano, Isidro”). Barranco León was first excavated in 1994 and Fuente Nueva 3 was excavated in 1995, both of these sites were still getting excavated in the mid 2000’s (“Schick, Kathy, and Nicholas Toth”). Since 1994 to 2004, 69% of the raw materials that were found…
The last stage of the “Old Stone Age” is the Upper Paleolithic Era. During the Upper Paleolithic Era, modern humans drastically changed the tools that were being used. The changes that were made were, leaving behind the hand axe and flake tools and gaining blade tools (Aggarwal). Blade tools were created using the punch flaking technique (O’Neil). The first step in this technique was preparing the rock core, the next step is, placing a hard pointed punch near the striking platform (O’Neil). The…
Cherokee Tribes had to be resourceful when making tools they used, what the earth provided such as wood, stone, rock and flint. The weapons that the Cherokee tribe used were arrowheads, spears, stone and club weapons which include tomahawks and battle hammers etc. These weapons were used for hunting deer and other types of animals. Some spears were made entirely of hardwood; the points sharpened by hand and then hardened in a fire (Cherokee Nation). Spear points were made in the same way; they…