The
saddle cuern supported Egyptian civilizationLink: History of Milling (copy for reference) |
The invention of the making powder was a greatest invention on the human history
If human did not know the making a powder, they can not catch
the start point of civilization. Food is a basis of a human progress and history
to civilization. Almost all museum of the present age is confined to an idea
of a curio shop symbolized by a mask of Tutankahmen(http://i-cias.com/e.o/tutankhamen.htm). If
the invention of the quern (hand driven sone mill) was not appear, the present
days of human life was neither a shadow nor form.
The
saddle cuern supported Egyptian civilization
Screening prosess
The human of the Old Stone Age was able to serve the enough food by collection hunting. Symboric art was cave picture. You can find some site for cave picture.
http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/rockpain/gallery.htm : Prehistoric Cave Paintings, Picture Gallery , India.
http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/rockpain/betaka.htm : K. L. Kamat Prehistoric Rock Paintings of Bhimabetaka , India.
http://museums.ncl.ac.uk/flint/menu.html: HP of University of Newcastle, Flints and Stones: Real Life in Prehistory
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/Lessons/6-cave.htm: Flints and Stones: Real Life in Prehistory are experienced by real work to paint.
The first human made powder was to prepare color powder, which used in order to write a cave picture. Human learned the way to made powder. Discovery of this powder of those days saves a food shortage of the human. But they did not know that just it is the beginning of huge human civilization.
The last stage of hunting collection of the Old Stone Age, by increase of population ate up the wild living , and indiscriminate hunting up a wild creature. From a lack of food and the life of quiet underwent the serious food shortage that cannot live if they did eat a fruit or seed of the grass which only the bird ate. It is closely resemble the fate of the human for the 21st century, which we will be face near future.
Some tool for a paint making was usuful to eat a hard fruit or the seed of grass which they did not look round til that time. It was arise in the need to eat mainly seed of a wild plant, and a stone mill was usufull to that. As for the use of a wild plant in Southwest Asia, the existence is confirmed already since the Stone Age before 17000 years. For example, a cutting tool and a crush tool of cereals (a stone mill) are scattered in a house in Israeli Natouf remains of (12000-9000 years ago) before 10000 many years, and a hole for cereals storage is established. In this way, the human shifted to settlement, live stock farming life. And large-size mortar progressed to a limit of human power. Informatiom for that area are in:
http://www.pnic.gov.ps/english/tourism/tour1.html : Trip information of Palestinian information centre
http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/rockpain/betaka.htm : Prehistoric Rock Paintings of Bhimabetaka (a.k.a. Bhimbetka) 40 kilometers south of Bhopa, India
