Introduction:

If you can’t wait for the next version of your phone, tablet or computer,
be patient. It’s probably coming relatively soon. Just be glad you didn’t live
during the Paleolithic Age, which lasted from about 2.6 million to about 10,500
years ago. Because of the simple tools used, this era is also called the Stone
Age. However, many species of early humans lived during the period, and some
great advances were made in their societies.

Though early humans started off living in Africa, by the end of the
Paleolithic Age, they had spread to the other continents. The four periods of
climate change -- ice ages -- that occurred were part of humans' motivation to
move. Temperatures plunged, glaciers expanded and sea levels dropped. In
response, some early humans adjusted to the change, while others journeyed
to new areas. Land bridges connected continents, so about 150,000 years ago
humans began to move into the Middle East. It took another 90,000 years until
they headed to Australia, and even longer to reach central and east Asia.

- Early humans were largely nomads, probably traveling in extended family

groups.

Scene 1: People walking.

-. Because of their nomadic lifestyle, Old Stone Age people built temporary
homes, rather than permanent homes.The first shelters are made, using rock
and branches.

Scene 2: People making shelters.

-Clothing is made of animal skins.

-Food came from two sources. Hunters, the males, caught animals for food.
Females gathered plants to supplement their meals.

Scene 3: B hunting, G picking fruits (?) then they’ll have a moment. Lol tas
may sparks na. *Beginning han ‘love story’
- During the Paleolithic Era, fire was used to prepare food, making it easier to
eat.

Scene 4: while may pa fire effect, the B&G will keep staring at each other. B
will give food to G then they’ll share food. Tapos hira na. Lol

Over 300,000 years ago, Neanderthal hunter-gathers lived in Africa and

Asia. They searched in groups for animals, using fire, stone tools and spears to
make the kill. However, the hunters were often the ones killed. Cro-Magnon
were more skilled at finding food. They understood animal migration, so they
followed their prey. Weapons improved: they had bows and arrows and spear-
throwing devices.

Scene 5: G is already pregnant. B will hunt for food. This is when we will show
the different tools they used.

Stone Age Toolkit

Early humans didn’t have jigsaws or power drills, but they developed a number
of useful everyday tools.

-The earliest ones included sturdy stone chips or "flakes" for cutting meat,
plant products and wood.

- Large handheld stones became hammers to prepare foods, such as cracking

bones to obtain marrow. After about a million years, bigger cutting tools were
created.

-Teardrop-shaped flat stones served as axes and were so practical they lasted
another million years.

About 40,000 years ago, ancient humans found new toolmaking

materials.

-Bone was used to fashion harpoon-like spears, fish hooks and sewing needles.
Finding food became more sophisticated with the invention of a spear thrower.
The hunter held the gadget in his hand and used it to guide the spear as he
hurled it, improving the distance, accuracy and force of the throw.

Scene 6: People transferring to a different place.

Scene 7: B will hunt for food again.

-Animals such as dogs are believed to have been first domesticated during the
Paleolithic Age.

Scene 8: Invaders will come to steal food and tools. B will hear the dog’s bark
so he will quickly come back to their settlement. *Fight Scene B and his tribe
will win against the invaders.

Scene 9: *inside a cave (?) B&G will paint/carve on the wall.

Painting 101
You may not picture Cro-Magnons as artists, but it was during their era, about
31,000 B.C., that cave painting began. Walls and ceilings were the canvases,
minerals were used as paint and fingers and animal hair became brushes.
These painters also spread paint by blowing through a tube. Though most of
the illustrations were horses and bison, other animal icons, including cattle,
deer, goats and bears, have also been discovered in caves. Humans were
seldom the artists’ subjects. The painters didn’t sign their work, but they did
leave handprints as identification. Researchers believe that these paintings had
a religious nature. Perhaps Cro-Magnons idolized certain animals, or maybe
they prayed to spirits for a successful hunt. European Cro-Magnons also
fashioned jewelry from bone, teeth, shells and clay and sculpted figures of
animals, people and fertility symbols.

Scene 10: G will give birth.

Conclusion:
There were not many humans at this time, and they were spread out, rather than
living close together. Experts think there were no more than one million humans living
during any time of the Paleolithic Era. That might sound like a lot of people, but today
there are about seven billion people, 7,000 times more people than in the Paleolithic
Era. Archaeological evidence points to humans beginning in the continent of Africa,
and later migrating to other continents.
Anthropologists have used several tribes to study and interpret what life during the
Paleolithic Age might have been like. Such tribes can be found in Papua New Guinea,
Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India), Philippines, Africa, and South America. One
aspect of the life and practices of these tribes is their respect for the natural
environment, which they often believe to be sacred. There is a sense not of owning the
earth but of being owned by it. Later, especially following the Industrial Revolution,
humanity would so exploit the earth's limited and often non-renewable resources so as
to seriously endanger planetary survival. The merging, too, of individual with
community welfare is different from the individualism of the modern age. Lessons can
still be learned from Paleolithic humanity.