Modern Time V.S. Stone Age

Have you ever stopped to think about how different our world is to the "Early Human" world. We have the luxury of TVs/computers, cars/buses/bikes, schools/education, houses/apartments/condos, medicine/vaccines, food/snacks, and many other things that the early humans didn't have. They had little or no entertainment, they had to walk everywhere, they learned from past experiences or from others of their "group," they had to build their own shelter, and sticks-and-stones home hardly compares to our modern skyscrapers. While we go to the doctor when we are hurt or sick, the early humans had to live with the fact that they were dying. We can have food practically any time of the day that we want it, but they had to scavenge, some times with no luck at all. 

Some people say that we have an advantage to the early humans, because we have all sorts of things that the early humans didn't have, but that may not be true. WE might be at the disadvantage, because we have allowed our bodies to become so sterile and picky about what is admitted into our bodies. Our ancestors ate termites and other insects, and now if anything strange like termites,  were to enter our bodies,  our body would immediately fight against it. Because we are so sterile, anything can and does kill us.

Today in Humanities we talked about this, and what we thought about how our life now-a-days differs from the life of the early humans. We have a "Wall of Thoughts," and on it we put a list of different things that make a civilization. We discussed in class what differed between the categories in the present time, and back when the early humans lived. The categories are;

1. government /politics
2. entertainment /art
3. transportation
4. nature /environment
5. food
6. water
7. resources
8. shelters /buildings
9. economy
10. belief system
11. culture
12. education
13. technology
14. communication

This was a chart that  we can up with:

Kuala Lumpur Early Man

Food:

Cold Storage

Fruit from backyard

Buy ingredients/make food

Berries and leaves

Hunt

Raw meat

Plants that aren’t poisonous

Insects

Water:

Bottled water

Filtered water

Bought water

Fountains, ice

Boxes

Rivers

Lakes

Dig holes in ground

Streams 

Rain

Nature/Environment:

We ruin it (global warming)

Trees

Use fruits and edible plants

Tools

Food water

Metal

Edible plants

Oxygen

Trees

Rivers

Caves

Sticks

Animal bones

Resources:

Tools

Oil 

Steal 

Metal

Bricks 

Plastic

Rubber

Lead

Tin 

Copper 

Gold

Wood

Stones

Fire

Rocks

Pot for cooking

Bones

Mud

Plants

Shelters/buildings:

Apartment

House

Condos

supermarkets

Cabins

Huts

Shopping malls

Caves

Huts

Simple huts

Lean-to

Trees and branches

Technology:

Computers

Protection equipment

Tools

Factories

Electricity

Television

Stairs

Tables

Oven

Clothes

Safes

Refining rocks

Spears

Hand axes

Fire

Hammer

Bones

Stones

Education:

Schools

Tutors

Jobs

Parents

Others 

“Does a learning environment have to be in a school?”

Like Mafatu, knew about nature

Learning from elders

Taught each other

Learned from experience

Hunting

Making tools

Communication:

Languages

Road signs

Hand movements, gestures

Talking

Writing

Reading

Internet

Books

Movies

Video

Letters

Email

Body language

IMing

Cave paintings

Hand gestures

Sign language

Grunts noises

Transportation:

Trucks

Cars

Bikes

Horses

Carriage

Walking

Jogging

Trains

Wheelchairs

Cable cars

Skateboards

Rollerblades

Speedboats

Sailboats

Surfboards

Feet

Walking

Running

Economy:

Stock markets

Government

Community/cooperation

Tourism/traveling

Money

Currencies

Jobs

Bartering

Trading

Government/Politics:

Court

Jury

People in charge

Minister

President

King

Mayor

Placed ruler vs. elected ruler

Teamwork

Law chief

No designed ruler

Families

Teamwork

Belief System:

Buddhism

Christianity

Islam

Religions

Believing in yourself (not giving up)

Consequences

Ceremonies

They (Early Humans) did not have religions

Entertainment/Art:

Games

Tv

Internet

Movies

Clothing

Amusement parks

Cinemas  

Music

Artists

Museums

Books

Dancing

Hunting ceremonies

Making necklaces

Drawing on (Cave) walls

Jewelry

Cave paintings

Culture

Way of cooking, eating, and dancing

dances

Ceremonies

Way of life

Anthem

Accessories

Different values

Food

Hunt animals

Celebrate for dead people

Tribes

Some of the things in each category were from the early human times, others were from modern times. I'll let you think about which ones go in which category.

The early humans had a very different life style from the modern life style.