Hunters
Who were the hunters?
Men
Who were the gatherers?
women and children
Name some helpful tools they invented.
What are bow and arrows, digging tools, fishing hooks, spears.... (others?)
Definition for nomads
People who move from place to place looking for food & shelter.
These covered the earth during the Ice Age
Name some of what they hunted.
Mammoths, deer, rabbits, buffalo, bison, fish
Why women were gatherers.
They fed and looked after the children.
Needles led to these new things.
What are sewing baskets for gathering, nets for fishing, and clothes from animal hides
How people hunted (alone, in pairs, small groups, or big groups).
What are small groups?
People walked across these when the sea was low or frozen.
What are land bridges?
What they used for hunting.
First clubs, then spears and traps.
What women gathered.
Plants and berries.
Tools gave people more control over this.
What is their environment?
Types of shelters people made.
What are caves, then huts from animal bones?
People followed these as the weather warmed up.
What are Animals (their food)?
What learned about animals.
How animals behaved so hunters could outsmart animals.
How did tools like baskets and diggers help gatherers?
Could gather more at once, easier to dig with a tool than with a hand, less time gathering.
Technology influenced where people lived, near these.
Food & water supply
How did people get more time for culture?
They got better at hunting and gathering.
What happened to people when sea levels rose?
People were stuck in 1 place.
What methods hunters had to develop.
Animal tracking
Why did everyone work?
It was the key to survival.
Talk about how better tools affected the food supply.
Less time hunting and gathering, made food supply more secure, led to bigger population.
Types of benefits new lands had.
What are food, water, technology?
Talk about how climate change affected people.
migrated to new lands, followed the food supply, adapted to new environments