FROM THE STONE AGE TO THE IRON AGE

By Millie

Introduction

This presentation is about life a long time ago when the stone age started right to the end of the Iron Age!.

Paleolithic

This was round about 10,000 BC. People hunted food and gathered

nuts. They moved around a lot.

Mesolithic In the Mesolithic times people started to

fish. They had dogs to help them hunt and to

keep people company. They made tools made out of wood stone

and weeds to hunt. The ice started to melt so people couldn't

move around as much so they had to travel by boat with all their accessories that had changed their life.

Britain became a separate island.

Neolithic In the Neolithic times early man started to farm

grow crops and look after animals. Farming spread across Europe from it’s origins in

Mesopotamia and the Indus valley. It was the biggest change for them.

People started to make pots to store food and water for there family.

Families grew bigger as they had more food. Crops as such as barley and wheat to make bread.

They burnt down the forest to make fields for there animals to live in.

They were not nomadic.

Bronze Age

The Bronze Age started round about 2500bc.In the Bronze Age there was some people that were called the Beaker folk. The reason why they were called the Beaker folk was they brought the skill of pottery and also flint.A new material was metal. This skill emerged in west Asia. Up until now they used flint BUT NOW they had this new material Bronze. They could NOW do much more with their new material.

IRON AGE

Click the picture to see a video about the Iron Age