EARLY-MAN
When we speak about human beings, in general we mean “Man”.
Man didn’t start off as we observe him today, at some point thousands of years back; we had Man start off in a version of an animal, most closest to a gorilla.
Though man was kind of like a wild animal, here in Uganda around Lake Victoria harbored the cave homes of early man.
Around this area is where they first discovered fire in the all world, which made his life much easier.
In Uganda today, we have roads, cars, planes, sky buildings, but many years back, this terrain was made up of forests, lakes, hills, mountains and swamps.
Most of early man’s tooks were carved out of stone, that’s why we term early man’s days as “Stone Age Days”
In the Ugandan Museum we have a collection of all early man’s tools in the great lake’s region of Lake Victoria (Biggest Lake in the world) kept here for exhibition. Through our Non-Profit Program called ” Visit Africa which can enchance you to come visit the Museum with all early man’s belongings, and so much more absolutely at 0% interest towards the Learn Africa Organization. ”Click here for details....
The earliest men lived very simple lives; Men lived in open air and often slept in caves. They dug holes hill sideways, sometimes they slept under trees.
Early men didn’t have permanent homes, they shifted place to place seeking for animals for hunting/food, meaning early man mostly depended on hunting for his own survival.
Women gathered fruits, roots and wild honey, as men went hunting and fishing.
They didn’t use fishing techniques as we use today, they used spears to fish.
Today’s hunters use hunting rifles, bow and arrow, nets, etc….
Early man’s bow and arrow wasn’t like the bow and arrow you see today. It was made of stone and wood.
To trap large animals, the haunters dug pits, covered them with grass or branches on top so that the animal wouldn’t notice them and walk over them, causing them to fall into the pit.
Before early man discovered fire, obviously he didn’t cook, he ate raw meat.
Its said by our ancestors that the way Early man discovered fire, one early man haunter threw a stone to hit an animal, it missed it then it hit another stone, then it sparked thus triggering fire on dried papyrus plants.
How did man learn how to cook his food?
One day early man dropped raw meat accidentally in fire, then it burnt up, because early man was so greedy, even if he saw that it was burnt up, he still pulled it out of the fire and ate it. Then he discovered that it tasted better than raw meat. That’s when early man learnt how to cook.
Later on fireman discovered a new method of making fire other than using stones.
He rubbed to woods together, after a short while, they produced fire.
To spice up life, early man befriended a dog by giving it some cooked meat. Dog became man’s first friend from another specie. With time, dogs started helping early man to hunt; he used them for protection from some wild animals, etc……
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