Life In The Neolithic Period
...ening rocks to use as harpoons. Its going to be a long walk, I don’t know about yall, but my feet are in horrible shape from walking around in these woods for years. You might want to put some of these moccasins on if you have soft feet. Before we leave the village let me show you our farm fields. Over here we farm on the fertile silt we call loess, and boy do we grow some good grain here. On we go…. Now it's time to make some good old fashioned polished stone tools. We polish our tools because this allows the tools to have sharper edges and prevent the edges from chipping off. We make a variety of tools such as awls, wedges, saws, drills, needles, and chisels. I make a lot of our tools in the village; it’s an all day process! Work can be a little stressful for me sometimes. Before we head back to the village, we need to go in the woods and get our dinner. We hunt our dinner then cook it over a fire. Tonight’s meal looks like, buffalo, since it’s the closest thing in sight, I don’t have the time to find anything else, and it will be a lengthy process ...