The Stone Age: hunter-gatherers

Exploring how early people in the Stone Age lived, hunted and made tools from stone

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What were Stone Age people called because of how they got their food? A) Hunter-gatherers B) Farmers C) Traders D) Builders
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What were Stone Age tools mostly made from? A) Flint and stone B) Iron and steel C) Bronze and copper D) Plastic and wood
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True or false? Stone Age people lived at the same time as dinosaurs. A) True B) False
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Fill in the blank: Stone Age people drew pictures of animals on the walls of ___.
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Put these three parts of the Stone Age in order from earliest to latest. Put these in order: Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age), Neolithic (New Stone Age), Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age)
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In which part of the Stone Age did people start farming? A) Neolithic (New Stone Age) B) Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) C) Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) D) Bronze Age
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Match each Stone Age word to its meaning. Match each item on the left to one on the right. Left: Flint, Mammoth, Cave painting, Hunter-gatherer Right: Hard stone chipped into sharp tools, Large hairy elephant-like animal hunted for food, Pictures made on rock walls, Person who hunts animals and gathers plants
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Which large animal did Stone Age people hunt for meat, fur and bones? A) Woolly mammoth B) Tiger C) Crocodile D) Polar bear
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Fill in the blank: The Stone Age is called the Stone Age because tools were made from ___.
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Put these stages of Stone Age life in order from earliest to latest. Put these in order: First farms and villages, Hunting mammoths in the Ice Age, Fishing and forest hunting after the Ice Age
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The Stone Age: hunter-gatherers · for parents and teachers

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Hunter-gatherers
Stone Age people are called hunter-gatherers because they hunted animals and gathered plants, berries and nuts to eat.
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Flint and stone
The Stone Age is named after the main material used for tools: stone, especially flint, which could be chipped into sharp blades.
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False
False. Dinosaurs died out about 65 million years ago, long before Stone Age humans appeared.
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caves
Stone Age people created cave paintings, often showing animals they hunted, like bison, horses and mammoths.
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Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age), Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age), Neolithic (New Stone Age)
The Stone Age is split into three parts: Palaeolithic (oldest), Mesolithic (middle) and Neolithic (newest), when farming began.
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Neolithic (New Stone Age)
Farming began in the Neolithic period. People started to grow crops and keep animals instead of only hunting and gathering.
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Flint → Hard stone chipped into sharp tools; Mammoth → Large hairy elephant-like animal hunted for food; Cave painting → Pictures made on rock walls; Hunter-gatherer → Person who hunts animals and gathers plants
These were important parts of Stone Age life: flint tools, mammoth hunting, cave art and the hunter-gatherer way of life.
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Woolly mammoth
Woolly mammoths were huge hairy relatives of elephants. They gave Stone Age people meat to eat, fur for clothes and bones for tools and shelters.
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stone
The Stone Age is named after the main material people used for tools and weapons: stone, often flint.
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Hunting mammoths in the Ice Age, Fishing and forest hunting after the Ice Age, First farms and villages
In the Palaeolithic people hunted mammoths, in the Mesolithic they fished and hunted in forests, and in the Neolithic they started farming.