Palaeolithic Sinker Nets, Social Studies Project, Grade Seven, Homeschooling, Early Humans

Stone Age Sinker Nets


Material: rope, threads, or tree branches and stones
Shape: woven fabric
Size: varying sizes and shapes depending on prey
Special qualities: could capture animals without physical encounters and be closed once the prey was caught; could catch more fish than just one hook
Use: used to trap prey
User: hunters, fishermen, and gathers
Where used: the Red Sea, the eastern Mediterranean, Europe, and in northeast Asia, including China, South Korea, and Japan
What tells us about technology at that time in that place : they were able to make composite tools from stone and organic material



Palaeolithic sinker nets where made from rope, threads, or tree branches and stones and woven in fabric with regular openings. They varied in size and shape depending on the animal they were hunting our fishing. They could capture animals without physical encounters and be closed once the prey was caught. Many fish could be caught in the net and just one like with a hook. This gave them more time for collective learning. Maybe the women made the nets and passed on the information to their daughters. Probably the men used the nets to fish and hunt and past on to their sons. The women needed to know how to weave and needed to be strong and throw the nets. They may have also used the nets to gather and hold food like a bag. They would have learned their jobs and rules by watching and practising. Evidence of its use has been found near the Red Sea, the eastern Mediterranean, in Europe, and in northeast Asia, including China, South Korea, and Japan. Maybe as far back is 29000 years ago,
they were able to make composite tools from stone and organic material.

Sources:

kidzfeed.com/stone-age-tools/
hakaimagazine.com/news/possible-evidence-of-worlds-oldest-fishing-nets-unearthed-in-korea/



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