Stones and Bones
For many people the term “Stone Age” conjures up images of Fred Flintstone, or of savages chasing dinosaurs. Neither of these could be further from the truth!
There is no one “stone age”, because there were a wide range of stone age societies in different places and at different times. However, they were all pre-literate societies, and they did not use metal tools.
Sometimes it seems that we only know about the stone age by wild extrapolation from stones and bones that have been dug up or found in a cave, but there are some stone age societies about whom we know more - much more.
In my next few posts, I’ll be presenting the daily life of one such stone age society, whom I’ll call the “Sohi”. In the final post of the series, I’ll tell you who the Sohi people are, and how we can know so much about them.
I’m not an archaeologist, nor am I an anthropologist. Heck, I’m not any kind of ologist, not even a vulcanologist! So I ask you to humor me if at times I seem to be taking a liberty or two. Please wait to see how the series turns out! I will then welcome any criticisms, and if appropriate I will amend the articles.
Read the whole series:
- Stones and Bones
- Daily Stone Age Life - The Sohi mother and child
- Daily Stone Age Life - The Sohi Village
- Daily Stone Age Life - The Lake
- Daily Stone Age Life - Sohi Food
- Daily Stone Age Life - trade and war
- Daily Stone Age Life - miscellany
- The Sohi - just who are they then?