Paleolithic Weapons Research Paper

Common examples of items we use today originated back in the Paleolithic era. Weapons and tools such as harpoons, cleavers, chisels, spears, and hand axes are used even today for fishing and the cutting of trees or animals. Over the years these tools have advanced from being made of stones and sticks to being made of strong metals smelted together. On page 3 it states "following the end of the Ice Age, however, communities in some parts of the world began to domesticate plants and animals; hunters and gathers gradually became farmers and producers." During the Mesolithic and Neolithic era they discovered metals, fire, wool, and leather. As they discovered these highly valuable by-products and transitioned into the agricultural-herding phase, society developed into a sedentary lifestyle. During the Bronze Age just after 4000 B.C.E., metallurgy was practices to make better tools and weapons made of bronze and metal composed of copper and tin. The advances in tools would allow for easier plowing during farming and irrigation; as well as better tools to go to battle with as the years progressed. …show more content…
In the event of trading they made technological advances such as the wheel which they attached to the carts making transportation of goods more accessible. In Mesopotamia as the resources grew so did their trade; this made keeping record of goods difficult to retain by memory. The Mesopotamians set out to find a new way to record data. In 7500 B.C.E., they used tokens of several shapes to represent different items, later the shapes were stamped into wet clay. In 3100 B.C.E., pictographs were used to keep tract of the items until the development of the cuneiform which allowed for the earliest recorded record of script on stone