Stone Age

STONE AGEAge is divided into 4 age, namely:Palaeolithikum (Old Stone Age)At this age tools made of stone that is still rough and not polished.Examples of tools address is:Handheld axes, are found in areas Pacitan. These devices are usually called "Chopper" (penetak tool / cutter).Tools from animal bone or antlers of piercer (dagger), serrated cutting edge.Flakes, namely small tools made of stone of Chalcedon, which can be used to strip the food.The tools of bone and Flakes, including the results Ngandong culture. The usefulness of these tools in general to hunt, fish, gather sweet potatoes and fruits.Based on the discovery then Paleolithikum cultural tools can be grouped into Pacitan Culture and Ngandong.Supporting human culture are:Pacitan: Pithecanthropus andNgandong: Homo and Homo soloensis Wajakensis.Mesolithikum (Middle Stone Age)Characteristic times Mesolithikum:The tools in this age is almost equal to the time of Palaeolithikum.The discovery of the hills shellfish off the coast called "kjoken modinger" (kitchen waste) Kjoken = kitchen, moding = garbage).Mesolithikum age tools:Ax handheld (peble)Hatchets (Hache Courte)Pipisan (grinding stones)Axes are made of stone is cleavedThe tools above are found in Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and FloresCulture Mesolithikum tools found in the cavescalled "Sous Abris Roche" The tools are:Flaces (tool flakes), the small tools made of stone and is useful for peeling food.End of the arrowheads,Stone milling (pipisan),Ax,The tools of bone and deer horn,These tools are found in East Java Sampung lawa cave (Term: Bone Sampung Sampung Culture = culture made from Bone)Three important part of Culture Mesolithikum, namely:Peble-Culture (ax culture handheld devices) obtained in Kjokken ModingerBone-Culture (cultural tool of Bones)Flakes Culture (cultural tool flakes) obtained in Abris sous RocheSupporting Human Culture Mesolithikum is the nation of Papua -Melanosoid. Neolithikum (Young Stone Age)At this age tools made of stone that have been mashed.Examples of such tools:Rectangular axes, such as Tornado, Pacul and Torah for wood working. Found in Sumatra, Java, Bali, Nusa Tenggara, Maluku, Sulawesi and KalimantanShoulder axes, the same as rectangular axes, only in part be tied around the stem neck.Only found in MinahasaOval axes, are found in New Guinea, Ceram, Drainage, Tanimbar, Leti, Minahasa and SarawakJewelry (bracelets and necklaces of exquisite stone), found in JavaClothing (from bark)Pottery (stoneware pot), found in Sumatra, Java, Melolo (Sumba)Human Culture Neolithikum supporters are Austronesian peoples (Austria) and the Austro-Asia (Khmer-Indochina). Megalithikum (Big Stone Age)Results of culture age megalithikum are as follows:Menhir, is a memorial stone erected as a shrine to commemorate the ancestorsDolmen, is a stone table, a place of worship and offerings to the spirits of ancestors, Adapu; a which is used for gravesSarchopagus or casket, shaped like dimples that have a closeStone tomb / coffin made of large stones, each stone is loose boards to each otherPunden staircase-steps, building places of worship are arranged terracedThe way early humans gather food for themselves:FOOD GATHERINGCharacteristic of this age are:Livelihoods of hunting and gathering foodNomadic, sedentary life is not yet settled andResidence in the cavesThe tools used are made of stone is still rough,bones and deer antlers. This day and age almost simultaneously with the old stone age (Palaeolithikum) and the middle stone age (Mesolithikum).FOOD ProducingCharacteristic of this age are:Has begun to settleGood at making the house as a place to liveWay of producing food by farming or berhumaBegan to form community groupsTools made of wood, horn, bone, bamboo, clay and stoneTools already burnished / polishedAge farming has coincided with the times Neolithikum (younger stone age) and the Age megalithikum (large stone age).Pembabakan Period Prehistoric Archaeology on Archaeology is the study of past life through artifacts objects. From the results of research by archaeologists, the veil of life of prehistoric people of Indonesia may be known.Based on the archaeological excavation of the prehistoric era can be divided into two, as in the description of the following materials:A. Stone AgeStone Age refers to a period in which the means of human life generally predominantly made of stone, although there are also certain tools made of wood and bone. Of the tools of the stone age relics, through Typology Method (how to determine the age based on the form or type of relics), then the stone age again divided into three periods, namely:1. Old Stone / PalaeolithikumIt is a period in which the means of life is made of rough and uncut stone / burnished, so the shape is still simple. For example: ax handheld.2. Middle Stone Associate / MesolithikumIs a transitional period in which the manner of making the tools of his life better and more refined than the old stone age. For example: Pebble / ax Sumatra.3. Stone Age / NeolithikumIt is a period in which the means of human life is made of stone that has been smoothed, and the shape is more perfect than the previous times. For example: square ax and hatchet shaped.B. Age of MetalsIt should be emphasized that with the start time of a metal that does not mean the end of the stone age, because at the time of logampun of stone tools continued to evolve even today. Indeed the name of the metal era is just to declare that the era of metal tools have been known and used predominantly. Age of the metal is also called the time perundagian.Development of the age in Indonesia is different from the metal in Europe, since the time of the metal in Europe experienced three phases / parts, the copper age, bronze age and iron age. While in Indonesia in particular and Southeast Asia generally do not have the time of copper but directly into the bronze age and iron simultaneously. And the findings are more dominant are the tools of the bronze age metal that is also called the Bronze Age.