Travel in Paleolithic and Neolithic Period

Historical Dimensions of Tourism:

History reveals the harsh realities of travel in ancient times and civilizations. The search for basic necessities of life: water, food, shelter and safety- keep early hunters constantly on the move from one settlement to another. This often meant dangerous and difficult travel for individuals, families or the entire communities. In the absence of any organized roads, people traveled by foot or on animal backs over open fields, forests, and marshy lands often facing great dangers. Movement across the land was virtual adventures that are required caution and skill.

Tourism in Paleolithic period:

This time, period marks the beginning of the existence of the ancestors of man. In this period men did not know how to farm and raise crops but lived on picking up vegetables, fruits and on hunting. In search of the new food sources and to be able to hunt animals, we moved from place to place and gathered in small groups. In the last phase of the Paleolithic age the early man could make tools in order to make new tools. The first works of art emerged in this era: paintings mode on the cave of the walls and various art objects such as low reliefs and figurines. The intellectual life of the man was beginning. Like, animal bones, teeth, and shell the ornate objects demonstrate the first aesthetic concern in man.

Travel in the prehistoric times Paleolithic Age (30000 B.C to 10,000 B.C ) suggests that all human activity, as also movements, revolved upon day-to-day survival. Gradually, when the regions were explored, the fire was discovered and tools were made, people were able to settle down in shelters. This resulted in increased activity on travel. This resulted is increased activity in travel. The ability to make and use tools and build shelters enabled prehistoric man to travel to new hunting grounds even in very extreme and inhospitable weather. Subsequently, during the Neolithic age, which began about 10,000 B.C., primitive people settled in more permanent regions and formed themselves into some kind of agricultural communities. The element of travel in humans can thus be traced to the beginning of time.

Tourism in Neolithic Period:

The Neolithic period is also called New stone age which was the final stage of cultural evolution or technologically development among prehistoric humans. It is characterized by stone tools shaped by polishing or grinding, dependence on domesticated plants or animals, settlement in the permanent village and the appearance of such crafts as pottery and weaving.

The starting paint is much debated, with different parts of the world but it is generally thought to have occurred sometimes about 10000 BC. Neolithic technologies also spread eastward to the Indus River, India by 5000 BCE. The farming communities based on millet and rice appeared in Huang He ( Yellow River ) valley of china and in southern Asia by about 3500 BC. In the old world, the Neolithic period was succeeded by the Bronze age when human societies learned to combine copper and tin to make bronze which replaced stone for use as tools and weapons.

During the Neolithic age, several innovations in the field of transport changed the very nature of travel. In Egypt, sailing vessels were built around 4000 B.C. This resulted in conscious travel in order to explore and see the world. There are early references to this effect. The invention of the wheel and money by the Sumerians (Babylonia) around 3500 B.C. marks the beginning of the modern era of travel. All the above factors and inventions greatly affected travel. All the above factors and inventions greatly affected travel. The money invented by the Sumerians was used by them in their various business and travel dealings. Many traders could pay for transportation as well as accommodation either with money or by exchange of goods. Shulgi, the ruler of ancient Babylonia, claimed to have protected roads and built rest houses at various places for respectable wayfarers. The forerunners of modern-day accommodation, these rest houses were the ideal places of rest for the travelers of those days.

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