into the bush

If you were living hundreds of thousands of year ago you might have woken  up each morning in a cave. Breakfast would  be  the roasted leg of wild bird you  had hunted the day before. When your belly is full you look down at the bone in your hand. What could you  use if for? should  you tie your hair around it to keep loose strands out of your face? Or should you dip the bone in ash and use it to draw pictures on the wall. Then again maybe it could be pice for a new game to play with other kids. Just as  imagining the rales  of your  new  game  your mother grunts at  you. It time to feed the fire pick the bugs out of your little brother's hair find some berries for lunch. you toss the bone into the into bush until later. If you forget about it nature will turn it into soil again (more about the that in chapter  tow.) but chances are you 'll  remember . stores haven't  been invented yet and if you and if you want a hair clip  a pencil  or a toy you've got to make if yourself.