How did hunter-gatherer peoples develop and employ technology?
You will have 10 minutes to complete the online portion and corresponding questions of this section in your packet.
First, you will read this Discovery article exhibiting what an ancient toolkit looked like. As you are reading the article and examining the image, consider what necessities you might bring to survive in the wild.
Next, you will watch a traditional, persistent hunt by San tribesmen in the Kalahari Desert of Africa. As you watch, pay close attention to the methods of tracking and hunting that the tribesmen employ - it is the same as it was thousands of years ago - and think about what advantages we have as humans over other species.
Finally, consider the image below. This is one of the earliest projectile technologies, the Atlatl. It was developed as a much more effective and powerful weapon than its precursor, the spear. How might this development affect the ways in which hunter-gatherers tracked down their prey?
To see the Atlatl in action, watch this short clip.
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