영어속독--Men of the Old Stone Age(1)

영어속독--Men of the Old Stone Age(1)

 

Since the earliest remains of tools or weapons with which we are familiar today are made of crudely fashioned stone, we speak of a very early period in which men made such tools as the Old Stone Age. Probably men used sticks as soon as they did stones; but since wood does not last as stone does, we do not know so much about early men's use of wood. Chipped stones found in a number of places have been called fist-hatchets because it is supposed that they were held in the fist when used. Sometimes this Old Stone Age is referred to by the Greek word Paleolithic, or is spoken of as the Rough Stone Age.

 

Old Stone men learned how to make knives, daggers, spearheads, arrowheads, and chisels. From the bones or tusks of animals they also made needles, so that before the Old Stone Age was over men probably knew how to make garments by sewing skins together. Here, you see, was in a way the beginning of manufacturing, a little out of turn if we compare it with the development of occupations mentioned in Section 10. But as long as men depended on rough stone tools, they lived almost wholly by hunting and fishing. (207 words)

 

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