Community Life Pre-script

     Ancient people's life when viewed from the side of social life and livelihood systems development life can be described.

a. Hunting and gathering society

 

     Two things are very crucial in the life of hunting and gathering systems are tools and fire. Manufacture of tools from stone, wood, bone, and horn are separate activities that are increasingly moving towards improvement of the shape and the physical tools. Pleistocene human tooling tool basically shows the usefulness of the tools for hunting and gathering. Forms of stone tools and bone tools in Indonesia according to the conditions of life of hunting and gathering in the tropics.

Characteristics of hunting and gathering societies:

1. His life was nomadic as if they were hunting the old place has been diminishing and the game will move when the dry season comes to finding sources of water.

2. Living in small groups to facilitate hunting.

3. Life depends on nature.

4. Tool hunting is still as simple as stone, bone, fish bone, and horn shape is still rough. These tools are found in Pacitan, East Java, and Ngandong. For example: hand-held axes to dig, cut, and skinning game animals. Perimbas ax to chop wood, bone breaking, and weapons. Flakes for slicing meat and cut tubers.

5. They use sign language.

At the time of hunting and gathering more advanced, this community has additional capabilities such as:

1. Make fire

2. The instinct to protect themselves from wild animals and bad weather to take shelter in caves.

3. Fishing with a simple way.

4. Eating shellfish for those who live on the seaside.

5. Residing in one place long enough.

6. The division of labor as men hunt and women gather food and care of the child.

b. Farming community

     At this time the public has had a major change in his life that were previously only collect food and now a producer of food by doing farm or ranch. This future society no longer nomadic, but began to live to live near food sources such as streams.

    Farming communities thought to arise during the Mesolithikum. Homo Sapiens is a community of clumps Proto-Malays who migrated to Indonesia. Fields depend on nature because they are not familiar with irrigation. If the soil is not fertile, they will move on looking for land is still fertile.

      At the time of planting tinggat Further, they are already living settled and live clustered, and able to make equipment to rub smooth stone tools. Most inventions are intended to show earthenware stock tomb, while elsewhere found a used fire black bottom that shows the pottery was able to cook food using pottery. Stone tools that stand out are square pickaxe, belincung, and axes. Square pickaxe used to perforate wood or carving. Belincung used to make boats from tree trunks. The third tool is found on the website Buni, Bekasi, West Java.