Primitive people lived in small groups. Such small groups were called primitive human “herd” or great community. The great community was formed spontaneously not to remain humble to the nature events. Such groups were not permanent. They often collapsed and
then new ones emerged. The great community appeared in the
first stage of the primitive communal system and continued
until tribal community was established.
The use of fire by the ancient people was a very important event in their lives. There were traces of fire in
Azikh cave 700 thousand years ago. The fire was used to get
warmer, for cooking and protection of people from wild
animals. In 1968 the residual bone of the lower jaw was found in Azikh cave. It is the fourth of the oldest findings in the world. The anthropologists called that primitive man Azikhanthrop, i.e. “Azikh man”. Anthropologist is a word of Greek origin. “Anthropos” means a human, “logos”- means a word, training, i.e. a scientist who deals with anthropology. Azikh men lived 350-400 thousand years ago. Built residuals found in Azikh cave shows that the ancient
people gradually acquired construction skills as well. As time
passed by, Azikh men gradually had to understand the
environment got primary religious imagination and were
engaged in simple art. There were certain scratched signs on
some of the bear sculls found in Azikh cave. It was connected
with the establishment of simple, religious rituals and totems
(trust in animals). At the end of the Lower Paleolithic era, new
types of labor instruments occurred. The tools were basically
maid of flint, basalt (volcanic stone) and obsidian (volcanic
glass).
