The Stone Age

The time before people learnt to write , so there are no written records of this time is called__________

• Ancient history

• settlement

• The Late Stone Age

• Prehistoric

The Stone Age is broken down into smaller parts

• hunter-gatherers, village people, early humans

• Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic

• Ice Age

• Iron Age

In Paleolithic age humans learnt to............

• Make simple stone tools and weapons for hunting.

• Learnt agriculture

• Became keen observers

Mesolithic is also known as

• The Early Stone Age

• The Middle Stone Age

• The Late Stone Age

Neolithic is also known as

• The Early Stone Age

• The Middle Stone Age

• The Late Stone Age

Palaeolithic is also known as

• The Early Stone Age

• The Middle Stone Age

• The Late Stone Age

People led largely nomadic lives as hunter-gatherers, constantly on the move in order to survive.

• Palaeolithic

• Mesolithic

• Neolithic

This is the time that farming began, pottery was developed and villages were built.

• Palaeolithic

• Mesolithic

• Neolithic

People in the Stone Age hunted animals for meat, caught fish and they also gathered food from different plants. We call these people __________

• explorers

• hunter-gatherers

• archeologists

What is a stone age?

• The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make tools with an edge

• The Stone Age times people used iron tools.