Day in Life 2024

Modified: 2024-01-26 8:36 PM CST

In no more than 300 words, describe one day of your life as a primitive hominin about 1 million years ago. In other words, give me an account of the 24 hours of your day back then in what is today Columbia County. Send me your accounts via e-mail. I must have them in my mailbox by 11:50 pm Friday 20 January 2023. This assignment is not graded but it should serve to put you in the right mindframe of living one million years ago.

For example: It got much colder last night; I knew it would from the breeze coming over the mountain following the hard rain. Fortunately, I had build a bigger fire in our cave before sleeping and it still had plenty of glowing embers. I carefully added small pieces of dry tree branches while blowing on the embers and a small flame was a pleasant result. I slowly added bigger branches I had stored from yesterday and soon the fire was roaring to life and I added bigger pieces I had chopped with my hand axe...


2024-01-26

It was cold, colder than usual, I moved my mammoth pelt aside and arose from the cave floor I looked out onto the edge of the cliff overlooking the valley, rays of sunshine trickled across the horizon like a downpour of flaming arrows. I throw on my clothes and begin to make the climb down. I hear birds warbling in the trees surrounding me, this now makes me think of food as a great hunger takes over me and I remember that I have dried deer meat in the pocket of my pants. I sit down on the nearest rock and enjoy my snack.


 

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