How early people lived: hunting, gathering, tools and moving to new lands
Grade 6 Social Studies Worksheet - Building Confidence
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Stone Age toolkits
Toolkit Made by What it had Oldest known toolkit (Oldowan) at least 2.6 million years ago hammerstones, stone cores and sharp flakes Handaxe toolkit (Acheulean) ? large flakes shaped into handaxes Middle Stone Age toolkit by at least 285,000 years ago in parts of Africa smaller flake tools, stone points fixed to wooden shafts, awls and scrapers The cell marked ? is blank. Below the chart: Paleolithic means Old Stone Age. Dates are from the Smithsonian Human Origins Program.
Jun's chart has a blank: when were handaxe toolkits made?
- By at least 285,000 years ago in Africa
- About 1.76 thousand years ago
- From about 1.76 million years ago
- At least 2.6 million years ago
Kira's chart has a blank: what did the Middle Stone Age toolkit have?
- Large flakes shaped into handaxes
- Hammerstones, stone cores and sharp flakes
- Bronze tools, clay jars and woven baskets
- Points on shafts, awls and scrapers
Stone Age toolkits
Toolkit Made by What it had Oldest known toolkit (Oldowan) at least 2.6 million years ago hammerstones, stone cores and sharp flakes Handaxe toolkit (Acheulean) from about 1.76 million years ago large flakes shaped into handaxes Middle Stone Age toolkit by at least 285,000 years ago in parts of Africa smaller flake tools, stone points fixed to wooden shafts, awls and scrapers Below the chart: Paleolithic means Old Stone Age. Dates are from the Smithsonian Human Origins Program.
Luz reads the word archaeologist. What does an archaeologist do?
- Sells old tools at a market
- Writes new laws for a city
- Studies the past from things people left
- Studies stars, planets and moons in space
Milo reads the word artifact. What is an artifact?
- A map of a modern city
- A rock shaped by rivers, with no people
- An object people made or used
- A story told about the past
Noah reads that early people were hunter-gatherers. What does that mean?
- They grew wheat and barley in their own fields
- They found wild plants and animals for food
- They kept herds in barns
- They bought food in shops
Which came later, the handaxe toolkit or the Middle Stone Age toolkit, Ren asks?
- Neither: both are from last century
- Both came in the same year
- The Middle Stone Age toolkit
- The handaxe toolkit
How many years ago is 2.6 million years ago, written as a number, Tala asks?
- 26,000,000 years ago
- 2,600,000 years ago
- 2,600 years ago
- 260,000 years ago
For millions of years, how did all people get their food, Zee asks?
- Trading at markets for food
- Gathering plants and finding animals
- Growing wheat and barley on their farms
- Keeping animals in barns
Middle Stone Age awls could poke holes. Why would people poke holes in hides, Ari asks?
- To write long messages on them for others
- To make the hides heavier
- To plant seeds in them
- To join hides into clothing
Why does the chart show stone tools, not wooden ones, from 2.6 million years ago, Bo asks?
- Stone lasts, and most wood rots
- People in those times did not use any wood
- Wood had not grown yet
- Stone was easier to carry