Starter quiz
- Which Stone Age Era began approximately 12 000 years ago?
- Paleolithic Era
- Mesolithic Era ✓
- Neolithic Era
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- Which Stone Age Era is sometimes called the Middle Stone Age?
- Paleolithic Era
- Mesolithic Era ✓
- Neolithic Era
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- How did Mesolithic humans find food?
- They were farmers who planted and harvested crops.
- They were hunter-gatherers who hunted animals and picked berries. ✓
- They were shoppers who went to the bakers, butchers and grocers.
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- The Stone Age is divided into ______ parts.
- 'three' ✓
- Nomadic means...
- someone who settles in one place to live
- someone who doesn't settle in one place to live ✓
- someone who plants and harvests crops for food
- someone who farms animals such as sheep, cows and pigs
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- The time period before written records were kept is called ...
- 'prehistory' ✓
Exit quiz
- Match each era to its alternative name
- Paleolithic Era⇔Early Stone Age ✓
- Mesolithic Era⇔Middle Stone Age ✓
- Neolithic Era⇔New Stone Age ✓
- In which part of the Stone Age do archaeologists believe humans began farming?
- Early Stone Age
- Middle Stone Age
- New Stone Age ✓
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- What is pottery?
- items made from clay ✓
- items made from glass
- items made from metal
- items made from wood
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- Which animals do archaeologists believe Neolithic humans domesticated?
- cattle ✓
- elephants
- hippos
- sheep ✓
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- What do archaeologists believe seeds discovered at Skara Brae are evidence of?
- Neolithic humans planted and harvested crops. ✓
- Neolithic humans were hunter-gatherers.
- Neolithic humans hunted wild animals.
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- What shape do archaeologists believe Neolithic homes were?
- circular ✓
- rectangular
- hexagonal
- octagonal
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Key learning points
- The Neolithic Era saw lots of changes for early humans in Britain.
- Animal bones found during excavations suggest that this is when humans began to domesticate animals such as cattle.
- This was the first time that people started deliberately planting and harvesting crops.
- Excavations at Skara Brae have unearthed barley seeds, suggesting cultivation.
- New technologies developed: this is the first period from which archaeologists find pottery, including at Skara Brae.
Common misconception
That all Neolithic houses were built from stone.
Explain that many Neolithic house in Britain were built from wood and daub. Houses at Skara Brae were built from stone as no wood was available.
Keywords
Neolithic era - the Neolithic Era is also known as the New Stone Age and is the third and final part of the Stone Age
Domesticated - a domesticated plant or animal is under human control
Pottery - items made out of clay are called pottery
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