Prehistoric Man Essay

It is a commonly shared view that prehistoric man was an inferior creature. Many fail to see that “he” is not that different from where we stand as a human race today. We like to think that we are so above him and remove himself from him, we have disconnected ourselves from this earlier form of us. Although prehistoric man laid the foundation for himself and the human race there are still misconceptions of him and he is looked down upon. Instead of focusing on his shortcomings and areas that needed improvements his accomplishments will be looked at. With him our development of tools was begun, along with culture, and even our very body structure. Without him we might not be standing here today.
Prehistoric man’s successes in tool making have helped to get us where modern technology is today. Amoung the earliest form of man there was definite tool use, even the apes used tools. This shows that we had to start somewhere. Then it became known that Homo habilis was act...