Daily #9

1. What is the oldest human-created artifact that has mattered to you? Why/how does it matter? 


I think that one of the oldest human-created artifacts is the house.  This was one of the first things created by humans.  Every living thing needs shelter.  Thanks to the early shelters created by people, we have the magnificent houses today.  I can't imagine what life would be like with no houses or buildings.  Buildings are something that people today take for granted.  We wouldn't have schools or farms.  Life as we know it would be gone.  Thanks to the building of houses, other things were built too.  I don't think that if there were no houses, we would have tables and chairs.  Some people might argue with me and say that the first shelters weren't man- made.  Sure, I agree that some people used caves, but then their house building skills blossomed over the years and now we have the houses we have today.  There were many different kinds of shelters.  Igloos, tepees, and mud brick huts were some of the early ones.  Obviously the first hunter gatherers slept on the ground in the open.  That is why the Native Americans had tepees.  They could pack up and move easily to follow the game.  Without the early people settling down and making shelters, we would not have some of the things that we have today.  This is why I think that the house, or shelter as they were called, is one of the most important human- created artifacts ever created.  Without them, the world as we know it would not exist.