How did they live

Fire is a very important element of our life, like air, water and earth. It’s importance has been underlined from the very beginning of our civilization. It made us “humans”, as theories goes, by modifying our primitive state of being. First by changing the diet from raw food to cooked food, second, by providing heat, third then by allowing to acquire other skills. Fire was (and still is) used to make the first metal tools and burn ceramics. Feeding the baby Rudolf Epp, german painter, 1834 - 1910 Then, aside from being such indispensable element in our lives and because it is so important, fire has been integrated in religious and philosophical systems around the world: the four, or five, or sometimes seven elements (the our of them are water, air, fire, earth). The oldest records of a fire dates back 420 million years ago. But it is said that humans started to make fire some 500.000 to 400.000 years ago.  This domesticated fire wasn’t used for cooking right away, more likely

I always wondered how did people lived 100, 1000, 10.000 years ago. What did they eat? Where did they sleep? What did they think? What made them happy or sad, what made them laugh or cry? Did they love their mates or there were other emotions involved? How did they discovered simple things like using spices and herbs for cooking? Or counting, writing and painting? How was life without TV, computers, cars and airplanes. Or without refrigerators and stoves or washers and dryers? How was life before the bulb? The older generations of our time may remember some ancient things like the telegraph or the big bulky radio. Or they may even know how to store food for winter. Some may know to make their own shoes or sew their own clothes. Other may know plants that sooth wounds or cure a stomach ache. But most of us are totally helpless without the use of modern technology. We are highly addicted on others for everything we own or need, from food and clothing to entertainment and health.  We fo