From hunter-gatherers to village people

The Stone Age is divided into three periods: the Paleolithic, the Mesolithic and the:

• Anaglyptic

• Neolithic

• Prehistoric

We can find out about Prehistoric people by:

• reading letters they left behind

• asking older relatives

• studying objects, paintings and remains from that time

A prehistoric arrow head tells us how people of that time:

• cooked and cleaned

• hunted and fought

• relaxed and played

In the Early Stone Age, people made tools by banging one stone against another to make a sharp edge. People used these tools:

• as axes and knives

• as hammers

• to make jewellery

People who move from one place to another in search of food and water are called:

• wanderers

• settlers

• nomads

When people began to farm, they started to:

• catch fish in nets

• grow crops for food

• find wild plants to eat

The woolly rhinoceros was an animal that lived in the Ice Age.

• True

• False

People in the Stone Age made tools and weapons from metal.

• True

• False

People learned to farm at the same time all over the world.

• True

• False

Early farmers domesticated wild animals to live and work on their farms.

• True

• False