African Wire Mother and Daughter Candleholder

Mother and Daughter

african and bust

Teaching the ways of the world, this mother shares the gifts and mysteries of light with her daughter in an elegantly styled candleholder of rattan and metal.

Measures 4 inches x 7 inches x 11 inches High!

Africa is the place where people first originated, so African history goes back further than in any other place on earth. At first there were not very many people in Africa, and they lived by gathering wild plants and by scavenging meat that other, stronger animals had killed. Gradually they began using stone tools, and fire, and then hunting for themselves. These first people probably started out in south-east Africa.

Genetic evidence shows that until about 60,000 years ago Africa was the only place on earth where modern people lived. Then some people spread out along the coasts, going around the Arabian Peninsula and India and all the way to Australia. Still most people lived in Africa. But as an Ice Age set in (not the most recent Ice Age but the one before that), people began to drift into West Asia, following the herds of animals.