The Homo Sapiens first emerged during the Paleolithic era. They weren't the first of the nomadic pioneers but they were certainly a step towards the civilization world. Although time and climate eradicate most of the records of their early life story, scholars happened to evidently pinpoint Africa as their early settling place. Not particularly settling, but a starting place of their journey. It is to believed that it is in Africa that "human culture" started for the homo sapiens. It is where they learned and invented ways of living.
The Homo Sapiens earliest invented tools includes spears, hand axes and blades made froms stones, woods or bones. Other objects such as body ornaments, beads and segments(ochre) were also put to use. The aforementioned tools or objects were used to hunt and gathered foods. As discussed in class, 70% of the food they get from hunting and the other 30% from gathering. As also discussed in class, the Homo Sapiens didn't just traveled to random places. However, they moved in a pattern that is determined by the seasons of food sources that they're hunting and gathering. Then, sometime between 100,000 and 60,000 years ago, was when the Homo Sapiens moved out of Africa and migrated to various parts of the world including Eurasia, Australia, America and lastly into the Pacific.
As the Paleolithic people continued their journey, they finally realized of the food sources that are available to them to their advantages. So instead of migrating accordingly to the seasons for the search of food to eat, they started settling down and make use of the lands. They built separate and different societies, each with their own language, culture, rituals, identity, stories, it's own history and more advanced tools as used by the ancient people before them. Like other human cultures, Paleolithic societies had rules and structures. This is when males became hunters and female were gatherers, rules about the equal distribution of food and animal killing as well as the rules about incest, adultery and governed sexual behaviour.
It is interesting how the Homo Sapiens evolved in years. As they traveled, changes were made, societies were developed as the populations increased, climate changes and different groups began to interact with one another. More advanced tools were created and living was a little bit easier as it was before. Although it took the Paleolithic era years and years to notice the unoccupied lands and start making a living, they certainly made an impact on the next era. They came from nothing to something big that started developed societies and everything that followed. There was no transportation or advanced technologies for them to utilized to travel and what not but they made a big change.
Artwork of the gathering and hunting Paleolithic people.
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