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Scientists divide the Stone Age into two main periods: the Paleolithic Period and the Neolithic Period. Sometimes scientists put another period, called the Mesolithic, in between these two.

Paleolithic Period

Paleolithic means “old stone age.” At the beginning of the Paleolithic Period, early humans made chopping tools out of stones. These tools did not change much for thousands of years. Then humans learned to chip flakes off stone. With this method they made better tools, such as scrapers and chisels. By about 40,000 years ago humans were attaching stone blades to handles made of bone or antler.

Some Paleolithic people lived in caves . Others lived under rock overhangs or out in the open. They gathered wild plants to eat. Their tools helped them to hunt animals. Groups moved with the seasons to find food. In the later Paleolithic Period some groups made small sculptures out of clay, stone, or bone. Some groups painted or carved designs on rocks or cave walls.

Neolithic Period

Neolithic means “new stone age.” The Neolithic Period began about 10,000 years ago. During this period people ground and polished stone to make more useful tools. They also learned to grow crops and to tame animals. They began to settle in villages. They learned to make pottery and to weave cloth and baskets.

The Neolithic way of life first appeared in southwestern Asia. Over several thousand years it spread northward to Europe and eastward to India and East Asia. Around the same time people in the Americas developed Neolithic skills on their own.

End of the Stone Age

By about 5,000 years ago people in Greece and China were making tools from bronze (a mixture of copper and tin). This development marked the end of the Stone Age and the beginning of the Bronze Age . The Bronze Age began later in other parts of the world. Some places never had a Bronze Age. In the Americas, for example, the development of agriculture and towns brought an end to the Stone Age.

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Stone age to iron age.

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Stone Age to Iron Age Lessons Pack

A complete 10-lesson history unit of work for Key Stage 2 (ages 7-11), with detailed lesson plans, Powerpoint slides, teacher guides and printable activity sheets.

Stone Age Boy English Pack

A two-week literacy unit for Y3/4 based on the book 'Stone Age Boy'

How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth English Pack

A two-week literacy unit for Y3/4 on instructional texts, based on the book 'How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth'

FREE: Cave Art Lesson

A free lesson about Stone Age cave art, including powerpoint, lesson plan and pupil resources.

Stig of the Dump Teacher's Pack

This pack contains a copy of Stig of the Dump and the popular 'Read and Respond' teacher guide

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A video from The Museum of London about the process of making tools during the Bronze Age.

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Stone Age Teaching Resources KS2

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Stone Age Liverpool Powerpoint . A series of large, good quality images. Local theme with info about Calder Stones and Formby Footprints. Ideal for lesson starters and discussion.

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The Stone Age

What was the Stone Age?

The Stone Age is the name given to the earliest period of human culture when stone tools were first used . In Britain, the Stone Age was around 12,000 years ago .

When people began smelting metal around 4500 years ago the Bronze Age began in the British Isles.

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• Our ancestor, modern man  Homo sapiens , emerged around 200,000 years ago.
• Homo habilis , an early human who evolved around 2.3 million years ago, was probably the first to make stone tools.
• Neanderthals died out around 30,000 years ago.
• Flint was commonly used for making stone tools but other stones such as chert and obsidian were also used.
• The Stone Age is divided into three periods; the Palaeolithic (old Stone Age), Mesolithic (middle Stone Age) and the Neolithic (new Stone Age).
• Palaeolithic and Mesolithic people were nomadic hunter gatherers . They moved frequently following the animals that they hunted and gathering fruits and berries when they could.
• The dog was the first animal to be domesticated. This happened during the Mesolithic period. Dogs could help with the hunt, warn of danger and provide warmth and comfort.
• The gradual development of agriculture and the domestication of animals during the Neolithic period meant that people could live in settled communities.
• Some isolated tribespeople were still effectively living in the Stone Age as recently as the twentieth century.
• The houses in Skara Brae , a Neolithic Orkney village, had beds, cupboards, dressers, shelves and chairs.

Stone Age Timeline

• 300,000-150,000 years ago Appearance of Homo sapiens in Africa

• 35,000 years ago Tally sticks (for counting)
• 30,000 years ago Neanderthals become extinct
• 28,000-20,000 years ago Use of needles, saws and harpoons
• 27,000 years ago Earliest evidence of weaving
• 25,000 years ago Earliest pottery
• 15,000 years ago Domestication of pigs
• 13,000-10,000 years ago End of last Ice Age
• 10,500 years ago Cattle domesticated
• 10,000-9000 years ago Barley and wheat cultivated
• 9,500 years ago Cat domesticated
• 8,000 years ago Sheep and goats domesticated; irrigation began; wheel invented
• 7,000 years ago Gold treasure in burials in Bulgaria
• 7,500 years ago First smelting of copper
• 6,000 years ago Domestication of horse and chicken

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• The Palaeolithic period lasted for such a long time that it accounts for 99% of all human history.
• The first cities did not have streets. The houses were joined together and you walked across the roofs.
• Forty percent of the skeletons recovered from an Egyptian Mesolithic cemetery showed signs of violent injuries. Archaeologists believe that they may provide the earliest evidence of warfare.
• The city of Jericho was founded 11,000 years ago.
• Dogs were domesticated from wolves.
• The houses in Skara Brae had toilets flushed by streams.

Stone Age gallery:

• A Stone Age tool set (Photo Credit: Michael Greenhalgh)
• Skara Brae in Scotland
• The stone circle at Avebury
• Castlerigg in the Lake District
• A Neolithic grave in Sweden
• Neolithic tools
• Recreated Neolithic stilt houses
• Carnac in Brittany, France, known for its unique rows of ancient standing stones
• A recreated Neolithic village

The Palaeolithic or old Stone Age lasted from 2.7 million years ago to around 20,000 to 10,000 years ago . Britain would have looked very different during the Paleolithic: there were a number of cold periods called ice ages and the shape of landscapes changed as it became warmer and colder. During the Lower Palaeolithic Britian was not an island, but connected to mainland Europe. Some time between 400,000 and 200,000 years ago that changed and the area between the British Isles and what is now Denmark flooded and finally disappeared under the sea about 7500 years ago. A number of distinct groups of humans lived during the Paleolithic but only our ancestor Homo sapiens has survived. During this time men were hunter gatherers , finding food from their local environment and moving from site to site depending on the season. Tools were made of stone but also of wood, bone, leather and vegetable fibres. Language also developed and its early forms may have been similar to the click languages used by some South and East African peoples today. The period also saw the beginnings of art , such as the cave paintings of Chauvet in France and Venus figurines (statues of pregnant women) and the development of religion . The Mesolithic or middle Stone Age saw the development of finer, smaller stone tools such as arrow or spear heads. The first evidence for homes in Britain comes from this period, and the first  canoes were made. This meant that men could fish as well as hunt. The dog was also domesticated during this period, probably by the selection and breeding of the least aggressive wolves. The Neolithic or new Stone Age, from around 6000 years ago, saw the beginnings of agriculture . Farmers from mainland Europe probably brought seeds and farming tools to Britain. Growing crops was a more reliable food supply than gathering wild plants and the landscape was transformed by a new type of life, linked to settled communities of people. Animals such as the cow and sheep were domesticated and provided a ready supply of meat, milk, wool, leather and bone. Grain was the first food that could be stored for long periods of time. Grain needed to be processed so stones were used for scything (cutting grass crops) and grinding. The need to harvest and store grain meant that it became necessary to stay in one place and settlements could develop. Trees were cut down to make clearings where crops could be grown and people worked together to construct trackways and paths.  Large scale construction could take place, trade developed and people began to have different roles such as leader, priest, fighter, farmer, hunter or slave. By the end of the Stone Age people created enclosures by piling up circular earth banks, perhaps to protect themselves and their animals, and buried their dead in huge earth mounds and under stone slabs . Silbury Hill, in Wiltshire, is the largest prehistoric earth mound in Europe. Built around 4500 years ago, its height and volume are similar to those of Egyptian pyramids , which were built at around the same time, 2500BC. It's been estimated that its construction must have taken around 4 million man hours of work.

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• Make your own Stone Age paper axe tool
• Stone Age jigsaw puzzles
• Could you make it in the stone age? Take this quiz and find out!
• Get into the minds of Ancient Britons, build a stone circle, create cave art and read some great fiction and non-fiction books about Ancient Britain
• Watch a video about Stone Age Hunter-Gatherer Cooking
• Make your own Stone Age cheese!
• Play a game on the Chauvet Cave website to discover just how much we have in common with prehistoric humans
• Learn all about ancient stone tools
• Download two brilliant comics about Stone Age Wales  sites:  Barclodiad y Gawres  and  Bryn Celli Ddu
• Try a Stone Age counting activity
• Learn to make your own Stone Age string (cordage)
• Can you match the prehistoric track to the animal that made it ?
• Get creative and make some Stone Age rock art
• Complete the Museum of London's prehistoric archaeology activity pack
• Download and print an instant Stone-Age dress-up kit
• Show off your knowledge with a hunter-gatherer quiz and try some Stone-Age storytelling

Children's books about the Stone Age

Find out more about the Stone Age

• A general introduction to prehistoric Britain from BBC Bitesize
• Read about  a 9000-year-old human settlement at Mountsandel  in Northern Ireland
• Understand how Stone Age hunter-gatherers lived  and who the first farmers were
• Read kids' historical fiction set in the Stone Age
• Introduction to Stone Age including cave art
• Download fantastic information booklets about Yorkshire in the Mesolithic period, Mesolithic life and hunter-gatherer people
• Visit a virtual museum of the Stone Age
• An archeological experiment in London tried out ways of moving large stones which might have been used in places like Stonehenge
• Find out about food  in prehistoric times
• See a Paleolithic  handaxe, found in Somalia in East Africa, which was made about 1.5 million years ago !
• Join historian Greg Jenner for a  BBC Sounds kids' homeschool history lesson on the Stone Age
• Using virtual reality, scientists have recreated the sounds of Stonehenge from 3,000 years ago
• Read about Stone Age tools found in Yorkshire
• Take a close look at Stone Age objects found in Britain: a piece of small, portable Ice Age art showing an animal from Britain, a carved stone ball from Skara Brae , a 500,000 year old hand axe , a  Mesolithic woodworking tool , a  Mesolithic headdress made from deer antlers and a  Neolithic quern for making flour
• Download a Neolithic Britain image bank from the British Museum
• Information about prehistoric pottery , made for the first time in the Neolithic period
• Why were flint and mining so important to prehistoric Britons?
• Find out more about daily life in prehistoric Britain , with links to more information about art, commerce, religion and more
• Stonehenge food and feasting : how people cooked and served their food
• Read about the mystery of Stonehenge engineering : how was it built by prehistoric people?
• Discover Stone Age art and images of daily life on the 10,000 Years BC website

See for yourself

• Creswell Crags in Derbyshire : first inhabited by Neanderthals, these cave dwellings with carvings date back to the Palaeolithic era
• Stonehenge is Britain’s foremost neolithic site. You can take a virtual tour of Stonehenge from your living room with a 360 degree view from the monument.  
• Look through the BBC Bitesize kids' guide to Stonehenge
• Visit the Wiltshire Museum to see treasures dating to the time of Stonehenge and worn by people who worshipped inside the stone circle
• Silbury Hill , the Avebury Ring and the Sanctuary are all close to Stonehenge in Wiltshire
• See replica Stone Age artefacts and listen to experts explain how the objects were created and used
• Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands is one of Northern Europe’s best preserved Neolithic villages; look through a Skara Brae gallery to see inside the houses
• Castlerrig stone circle near Keswick
• Bryn Celli Ddu is a Neolithic chambered tomb in Wales
• The Megalithic Portal offers a map of ancient sites in the British Isles and Europe
• Visit the reconstruction of a Neolithic log cabin at the Ancient Technology Outdoor Education Centre
• Butser Ancient Farm features archaeological reconstructions of ancient buildings from the Stone Age
• Chauvet Cave is a 36,000-year-old French "art gallery". Take an immersive journey through the cave with Star Wars actress Daisy Ridley in a new Virtual Reality experience

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Stone Age for kids learning in KS 1 & KS2 at Primary School. Homework help with the history of the Stone Age, cavemen and stone age tools.

Time: 5 million - 10,000 years ago

When was the stone age?

Over five million years ago lived a group of southern apes in Africa called Hominids. Hominids looked different to us they could walk upright like us but they were much shorter. They also had small brains and ape-like faces.

They used to spend a lot of time in the trees so their bodies were adapted to living in trees with long arms and curved fingers and toes to grip the branches. We believe that they started walking upright because the weather changed and a lot of the forests died out so they had to walk further to find food and it was much easier to walk on two feet than four. They could also see far away by standing up to see if any danger was coming.

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When were stone tools first used?

Around two and a half million years ago a new species evolved (changed into something new) from the Hominids to the Homo habilis. They had a bigger brain and they were more skilled. They made their own tools using thin flakes of stone for cutting and larger stones for smashing hard objects. They used long thin stones called hammer stones to chip off flakes of stone from the bigger stones. Wooden sticks were sharpened into a sharp point so they could dig up roots to eat.

The Homo habilis used their tools to cut meat from dead animals they could find. Because these early men started to eat meat meant that they didn't have to stay close to plants and fruit and could travel further. It also gave them more energy and helped their brains grow bigger.

When was fire discovered?

A million years ago Hominids evolved again because of their bigger brains into Homo erectus which means 'upright man' in Latin. Homo erectus discovered fire. To start with they probably waited until lighting caught grass alight then used branches to transfer the fire.

Fire changed their lives. They discovered that meat tasted better and was easier to eat when it was cooked. Their teeth and jaws then changed to be smaller as they didn't need to chew the meat so much. As they ate more meat their brains became bigger and their bodies were taller and stronger.

Fire was also used to help create new tools. By heating the stone they found that they could shape them more easily. They could keep safe by scaring away dangerous animals with the flames. They could keep themselves warm too. Until now they would sleep at night as there was no way of lighting the dark, but now they had fire, they could stay awake and carry on working at night.

Over time the Homo erectus travelled from Africa to other countries such as China and to Europe to France and Spain. As the population was growing they had to move to find more food which led them to new places.

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What was life like during the Stone Age?

Around two-hundred thousand years ago Homo erectus evolved to become Homo sapiens which means 'wise man' in Latin. They had bigger brains again and big strong muscular bodies and a ridge of bone above their eyes.

The Neanderthal people were an early type of Homo sapiens that appeared in Europe and western Asia during an ice age. It was hard to find plants to eat during the ice age so they had to strip meat from dead animals like horses and reindeer. Mammoths and rhinos were too dangerous to go near so the early men used to scare them away with fire. Sometimes they would scare them to the edge of a cliff where they would fall to their death. The Neanderthals could then take their meat.

It was very cold during the ice age so they made basic clothes from the skins of animals. They would shelter in caves to keep warm or make shelters from branches in the open. These men were also good at making better tools for hunting, cutting food and making other tools.

The Neanderthals where clever and worked as families. Hunting was very dangerous and often they would get hurt. The others would then care for them as some would never be able to hunt again. They were also the first to bury their dead. They would dig a hole with their sharpened sticks and lay the body inside. They believed in the after-life so they would bury horns, stone tools and pollen from flowers to help the dead in their next life.

It is believed that the Neanderthals were the first to start talking. It would only be simple words and had gestures to organise each other and warn each other of any dangers.

The Neanderthals began to die out 40,000 years ago. A new type of people who were good a hunting drove the Neanderthals away and many starved to death. Others became weak and died of illness.

Evolving to the humans of today

150,000 years ago Home sapiens evolved to become Homo sapiens sapiens. All humans today are evolved from these people and they would have looked a lot like us.

There tools were now more advanced with handles and spears with tied sharp stone ends for blades. Bone was used to make fish hooks.

They would wander from place to place sharing information and trading items. People began to sew clothes and many people believed in spirits or gods possibly to help with hunting and to guide them in the after-life.

At this time the early man was now travelling and spreading all across the world. They would travel by boats made from bamboo stems tied together with thin strips of bamboo.

30,000 years ago tribes of people arrived in Eastern Europe and survived only on the mammoths there using their meat for food and bones to make shelters and skin for warm clothes and to cover their shelters. They used a weapon called a spear-thrower which could be thrown much further than before. This made it possible to hunt these dangerous animals.

How old are the oldest cave paintings?

35,000 years ago man started painting on cave walls with paint made from grinding soft rocks into a paste. They would then use their finger or animal skin to create the paintings.

Paintings were of animals like bison, deer, horses and mammoths. No one is really sure why they started painting in caves, it could have been for meetings or ceremonies.

When was the end of the last ice age?

The last ice age ended 12,000 years ago. The ice melted as the weather became warmer and huge forests began to grow. The mammoths died out and people hunted smaller animals. Tribes grew crops such as wheat and barley and grew their own food as well as living off hunting animals and fishing.

Hunters discovered that if they took baby wolves and looked after them they would become tame and help them with their hunting. They tamed other animals such as sheep, goats and cattle. This meant they always had meat, milk and use of fur and skins.

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A free cross-curricular topic map showing ideas for how to link the ‘Stone Age to Iron Age’ topic to other areas of the curriculum. This Stone Age planning map is designed with Year 3/Year 4 in mind but it could easily be adapted to other year groups. It works alongside our popular Stone Age to Iron Age Planning Pack , recommended by TES.

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Iron Age Lesson Bundle

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