Stone Age
You need to cut meat, scrape animal skin or chop wood. You don't have metal tools. What could you use?
A stone tool
A mammoth is much bigger and stronger than one human. How could stone age hunter catch and kill such a big animal?
Hunters would work together to help each other hunt it.
You are walking across a field and find an old stone tool in the ground. You don't know how old it is. Who could help you?
An archaeologist
Scientists find ancient bones. What can bones tell them about an animal or person?
Information about its body, age, health, diet, injuries, etc.
You find animal bones, a fireplace and pieces of stone near each other. What might have happened here?
People lived or camped here, cooked food and used stone tools. No human bones were found- they moved to another place.
It is cold, dark and dangerous outside. You have no house. Where might a Stone Age family choose to stay?
A cave
You have killed a mammoth. The animal is enormous. Name three things prehistoric people could use from it.
Meat, bones, skin/fur, tusks.
An archaeologist finds a small object made from bone. It may have been part of a necklace. Why shouldn't they simply pick it up and take it home?
Its exact location and position can give important information.
Name at least three tools an archeologist or scientist needs when digging and analyzing an artefact.
Spade, brush, gloves, ruler, scales,water, microscope..
You find a piece of animal skin, a bone needle and thread made from animal material. What might someone have been making?
Clothes, tent.
You are a Stone Age hunter. You have caught an animal, but you cannot put the meat in a fridge. What do you need to do?
Cook, eat, use the fur for clothes or tent and bones for tools and weapons.
You find a huge pile of mammoth bones at an archaeological site. What might this tell scientists about the people who lived there?
They hunted and used mammoth bones to build tents. They might move from place to place to hunt and leave the bones behind.
An archaeologist finds bones, stones and pieces of pottery in one place. Why is the site important, not just the individual objects?
The objects together can tell us about the people who lived there.
Scientists discover that a prehistoric person had a serious injury that healed before they died. How do they know?
They can see evidence of healing in the bones
At a prehistoric site you find a traces of fire, mammoth bones, stone tools and animal-skin remains. You find human skeleton with arrow in the chest area. Tell us one story that these clues could suggest.
A group of prehistoric people lived/camped there, made a fire, hunted or used a mammoth, prepared food and used animal skins. They ran away after a battle with another group, maybe over the prey..?
Name some of the stone age weapons or tools.
Bow, arrow, spear, axe, hand axe, knife, fishing hook, needle, hammerstone.
What was used before people learned to use written language? How did they leave a message, story of their life, communicate with other groups?
They left many cave paintings.
An archaeologist finds an object but doesn't know exactly what it was used for. What could they do to find out?
Study/analyse it and compare it with other finds.
How do scientists estimate the age of an artefact or the archeologic site?
They look at which layer of soil it was found. Deeper layers are older.
Where is the History Park we went for a school trip last week?
Ledčice
Imagine you are living in the Stone Age. You have no supermarket, electricity or modern clothes. Name three things you would need to survive.
Food, water, shelter, fire, clothes, tools…
Your group wants to hunt a mammoth. You have 10 hunters. Suggest a simple plan for how the hunters could work together.
Any sensible cooperative hunting plan.
You discover an artefact at a dig. Explain the journey it might take from the ground to a museum.
Dig → record/document → clean/study/analyse → preserve → museum
Would you like to become an archeologist or artefact scientist? Explain why.
Pros and cons, any clear and reasonable answer will do.
What did you learn you didn´t know about prehistoric times?
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