Pre historic cultures - research 1

During the prehistoric era, cannibalism amongst the prehistoric tribes existed, there is also archeological evidence of cannibalism among some of the prehistoric communities - so, they most probably knew about our inner organs and also knew where lean tissue or fat predominates in the human body. Most likely, they believed that their lives were determined by spirits. Aboriginal peoples around the world today often correlate illness with losing one's soul.  Also illness and disease were considered punishment from Gods.

Prehistoric medicines refers to those medicines that were used to heal before the mankind were able to read and write.  It covers vast period and also varies according to regions and cultures across the world.  Only a calculated guestimates could be made by Anthropologists, those people who study the history of humanity of bygone era, these guestimates were based studying human remains and artifacts which have survived disintegrating over the centuries through some source of preservation used at that times.

Prehistoric people believed in a combination of natural and supernatural causes for the treatment for conditions and disease.  In those era, the placebo effect of the treatment and the side effects did not exist or were not known or understood.  There may have been some trial and error before they could arrive at an effective treatment.  Prehistoric people never had to think about the future since the mentality at that period was to survive day to day and hence the need to take into other factors must not have crossed their mind like in today like lifestyle, family history, and the placebo effect.

There are lots evidences from their burial practices which made the modern man think that they knew something about bone structure solely because bones have been found that were stripped of the flesh, bleached and piled according to what part of the body they came from.

The prehistoric period overlapped with some other historical periods. During the height of the ancient Egyptian civilization, most of Europe was in the New Stone Age. The Minoan civilization flourished at that time like the Bronze Age in other places, During the Greek and early Roman periods Britain was in the Iron Age, thus you can see that not all the places in the world was moving at the same pace and hence the current scenario where some countries are way ahead of others and called as industrialized nations and some countries are developing whereas others are far behind in developments.