Semi-nomadic life During the ice age families traveled for a reason not for leisure time but to survive. The amazing novel Maroo Of The Winter Caves by: Ann Turnbull. This book is about a family trying to survive. The food that they ate weren't like our mashed potatoes and gravy with a side of tri-tip. They had raw meat, roots to suck on, reindeer, ibex and birds. They also traveled different than we do we travel by car, plane or boats they traveled by feet and following reindeer. For their shelter they had huts, teepees and caves and now we have multiple houses and we just never use them. What would we do if we didn’t have technology or any other thing like coloring books what would you do. Well the homo sapiens sapiens (maroo and her
Living in the Paleolithic age must have extremely difficult. I just read the book Maroo of the Winter Caves , by Ann Turnbell. This book tells about Maroo and her family, This book tells a lot about how life was like back then. It's mainly about Maroo and her family having to travel from the winter caves, back to the autumn hunting grounds.While they try to travel back, they get into many obstacles that they have to over come, Mainly trying to overcome time and nature. Our life is extremely different today, then Maroo's life thousands of years ago, Some of these differences are the shelter we inhabit, the clothing we wear,
Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen. The book takes place during present time and during winter. The location is the wilderness in Canada. The surroundings were filled with pine trees and and bushes everywhere. There are many wild animals such as birds, rabbits, and other larger animals. Also the ground was covered in snow and the temperature was freezing. The mood that the setting creates is miserable. For example “But it rained steadily for five days and while it rained it colder, so by the fifth day Brian felt as if he was freezing.” (p. 33) This quote shows how miserable it was for Brian out in the Canadian wilderness.
ways. They remained as their ancestors did and refused to give up their culture of hunters and
This book would lure the audience of a young adult readers looking for an adventure. It is also a great wilderness and survival book. The author emphasizes the journey that Christopher takes. “Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pet, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road.” p.163. This can relate to the audience because, some people choose to live without extra amenities.
Food was something everybody needed. The Makah ate a lot of fish and still do today. Fish was the main thing they ate. The Makah also ate deer, seal, whale, and more. The Makah ate everything with fish oil even dessert. They loved fish oil so much they had to eat it with everything. The Makah were hunters. They would go out in canoes and catch as much as they could. The Makah ate very little vegetables. They mostly ate meat. The only vegetables they ate were in the spring when the woman would find some plants. They would dry the fish for the winter and other times when it was needed. How they cooked the food was with a cedar wood box. They would make a fire and put coals on the fire. The Makah would put water in the box and add the hot coals. Then they would add the food. They would take out cold coals and put in hot ones. The Makah ate with their hands and ate on cedar mats. The Makah didn’t have any kind of utensils so they just used their hands for everything.
The environment also affected the Indians shelter in many ways. Depending on where they lived, the Indian tribes had different ways of protecting themselves from the elements using the available resources, and different designs for the general climate. For example, the Indians living in the mountainous and semi-desert areas of the south west lived in light twig shacks and log huts, whereas the Inuits of the sub arctic north America built igloos, and the woodland Indians lived in bark covered houses.
The teepees were made out of logs that are covered with deer or buffalo hide. They kill and skin the animal and then let the hide dry , they then placed the logs in a cone shape and covered them with the animal hide. They also lived in structures called long houses which were made of wood. All of these houses together were called villages. They had to make their houses easy to put up and take down so they could so they could leave to avoid anything that might bring harm to them.
Settlers maintained their crops and livestock, but while doing so the temperature drops past the freezing point. Children were attending school when the blizzard started to make its way toward the prairie. Unprepared with the proper clothing to at least have a fighting chance to stay warm during the frigid temperatures. These children were without over coats to keep warm, in one situation with two sisters Eda and Matilda, the author wrote “the older sister Eda took off her wrap to cover the younger sister.” (Laskin, 46) Times were very different then they are today, where heavier clothing are required and more available may not have been accessible to the settlers of that time. It was understood that so many children died with only a blanket of some sort, while walking against the heavy winds that was strong enough to rip it from the shoulders of the children. Many of these settlers died because of not dressing for the weather, or not having the resources to make or buy the
The Inuits food plans are fish and hunted arctic animals. The main reason the Inuit are still in northern Canada, is because they are used to their lifestyle and the northern
The Inuit women have a couple of responsibilities to make a good home life. All the material the men of the house wear to keep themselves warm in the harsh weather while hunting is what the wife made for them, right down to the shoes. While the men are out hunting, the women of the house uses her mouth to soften dry skin boots; when they are not doing that, they are nursing their babies or playing with them. Little children are nursed up to three years of age. Meanwhile, even though it is freezing in the igloo the babies plays with no clothes on and does not seem to have any issue with it. Along with the babies playing with no clothes on inside, on the outside of the igloo the older kids play in the snow with their coats and boots on that their mother made for them. When night comes and the temperature drops everyone living in the igloo sleeps together under animal skin in front of a small fire fueled buy oil to keep warm. They also spread the fire at times to keep warm
Then, it was a six month trip, sometimes longer, and all of that time was on the trail, out in the wilderness. Many died, and when that happened, the family had to immediately get over it; otherwise they would be “a weak link.” Travelers could be attacked by Indians or animals. Wagons could break down and the whole crew would stop. Although it wasn’t often, cannibalism could be the only way to survive.
Imagine a group of people, prisoners, who had been chained to stare at a wall in a cave for all of their lives. Facing that wall, these prisoners can pass the time by merely watching the shadows casted from a fire they could not see behind them dance on the walls. These shadows became the closest to what view of reality the prisoners have. But what happens after one of these prisoners is unbound from his chains to inspect beyond the wall of shadows, to the fire and outside the cave? How would seeing the world outside of the walls of the cave affect his views of the shadows and reality? It is this theme with its questions that make up Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. It is in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave that there are several key ideas presented in the allegory. The ideas presented in the allegory can be related back to themes of education and the gaining of knowledge and in ways that can relate back to “us”, the people.
extinct for 4000 years, it is difficult to tell exactly what they lived on, but
captive by a sheath of frost, as were the glacial branches that scraped at my windows, begging to get in. It is indeed the coldest year I can remember, with winds like barbs that caught and pulled at my skin. People ceaselessly searched for warmth, but my family found that this year, the warmth was searching for us.
Have you ever been to a cave? Seriously, I have yet to pay a visit in any caves in Malaysia. I am actually so ashamed to admit myself as a Malaysian; I have never visited to any caves with such a natural beauty. Until the day my college provided us to chance to Gua Tempurung. I felt excited at the moment. In the mean time, I was curious and afraid when someone told me that we had to be in the cave for five hours and also need to slide down in some part of the cave, although it was assured to be safe. I was hesitating to go for this trip at the beginning but I decided to join as my friends were going. I also figured that it could turn out to be a precious experience, intricately engraved in my life. The day before the trip, I felt restless as I was so anxious and worry if I could overcome these obstacles in the cave. I wondered that will it turn out to be easy or difficult as I never have any experience in cave. I hope that everything goes well.