On The Culture Of Stone Age In Central Asia

The Culture of Stone Age in Central Asia passed through a long long time, it began from two or three million years to 3000 B.C. It included two parts, that is , the Paleolithic Culture and Neolithic Culture. During the period of Paleolithic, the stone tools were made only by striking for a time, and a few kinds of simple shapes were made. After that, with the development of the manufacturing technique, the exquisite stone tools by twice or several times striking were made, and later, the human being began to make the stoneware on the prepared stone cores. It expressed that primitive human had already predicted what they wanted to do. During the period of Neolithic, the polished stone tools occurred. The shapes of the stone tools gradually increased, such as stone hoes, millings, hammers, knives, axes, gravers and stone containers etc, and the shapes of stoneware grew steady. With the improvement of the stone tools, the primitive human made a great progress in all fields. During the period of Paleolithic, primitive human became aware how to use fire. The using of fire, on one hand, kept the human just stepped out of the animal world from the attack of other animal, and on the other hand, it also made human begin to cook food initiatively, which was good for the evolution and development of the bodies and brains of human being. During the period of Neolithic, human being invented the bow, the using of the bow offered human more animals both in the quantities and the categories, which made it possible to domesticate the animals. Meanwhile, primitive human in Central Asia began to plant grain. Thus, the age of productive economy of primitive agriculture and stockbreeding was coming. The development of primitive agriculture and stockbreeding made human being live a resident life. Because of the necessity of the resident life, human being began to build something for live, at the same time, pottery as household appliance became more and more plentiful. In the meantime, primitive human being in Central Asia had the sense of religion and art. The products of pottery and some women statuary could be seen as the religious consciousness that human being showed. Primitive artwork was the embodiment of the sense of beauty of primitive human being. During the period of Paleolithic, people in Central Asia began to carve the people's faces on stones. During the period of Neolithic, people began to use many kinds of arts and decorations that was made of shell, animal bone, clay and so on, including a string of beads and bracelet, these decorations could be seen as the amulets of religion consciousness, or decorations only. Although the Culture of Stone Age in Central Asia was the symbol that primitive human being had changed nature. It was still the results of the period of primary productivity. With the emergence of metal tools in the period of late Neolithic, the stone tools gradually declined and at last withdrew the historical stage of the Central Asia. The People in Central Asia would evolve from savage to civilization.