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6th grade How early people lived: hunting, gathering, tools and moving to new lands worksheet

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How early people lived: hunting, gathering, tools and moving to new lands

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  1. Read this first

    Stone Age toolkits

    ToolkitMade byWhat it had
    Oldest known toolkit (Oldowan)at least 2.6 million years agohammerstones, stone cores and sharp flakes
    Handaxe toolkit (Acheulean)?large flakes shaped into handaxes
    Middle Stone Age toolkitby at least 285,000 years ago in parts of Africasmaller 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.

  2. Jun's chart has a blank: when were handaxe toolkits made?

    • At least 2.6 million years ago
    • By at least 285,000 years ago in Africa
    • About 1.76 thousand years ago
    • From about 1.76 million years ago

  3. Kira's chart has a blank: what did the Middle Stone Age toolkit have?

    • Large flakes shaped into handaxes
    • Points on shafts, awls and scrapers
    • Hammerstones, stone cores and sharp flakes
    • Bronze tools, clay jars and woven baskets

  4. Stone Age toolkits

    ToolkitMade byWhat it had
    Oldest known toolkit (Oldowan)at least 2.6 million years agohammerstones, stone cores and sharp flakes
    Handaxe toolkit (Acheulean)from about 1.76 million years agolarge flakes shaped into handaxes
    Middle Stone Age toolkitby at least 285,000 years ago in parts of Africasmaller 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.

  5. Luz reads the word archaeologist. What does an archaeologist do?

    • Studies the past from things people left
    • Sells old tools at a market
    • Writes new laws for a city
    • Studies stars, planets and moons in space

  6. Milo reads the word artifact. What is an artifact?

    • An object people made or used
    • A map of a modern city
    • A story told about the past
    • A rock shaped by rivers, with no people

  7. Noah reads that early people were hunter-gatherers. What does that mean?

    • They found wild plants and animals for food
    • They grew wheat and barley in their own fields
    • They bought food in shops
    • They kept herds in barns

  8. Which toolkit in the chart is the oldest, Pia asks?

    • The Oldowan toolkit
    • The three are the same age
    • The handaxe toolkit
    • The Middle Stone Age toolkit

  9. Which came later, the handaxe toolkit or the Middle Stone Age toolkit, Ren asks?

    • The Middle Stone Age toolkit
    • Both came in the same year
    • Neither: both are from last century
    • The handaxe toolkit

  10. How many years ago is 2.6 million years ago, written as a number, Tala asks?

    • 26,000,000 years ago
    • 2,600 years ago
    • 2,600,000 years ago
    • 260,000 years ago

  11. Middle Stone Age awls could poke holes. Why would people poke holes in hides, Ari asks?

    • To make the hides heavier
    • To write long messages on them for others
    • To plant seeds in them
    • To join hides into clothing

  12. Why does the chart show stone tools, not wooden ones, from 2.6 million years ago, Bo asks?

    • People in those times did not use any wood
    • Stone lasts, and most wood rots
    • Stone was easier to carry
    • Wood had not grown yet
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How early people lived: tools, fire, art and moving to new lands. Every version has 10 questions, and the answer key prints on the second page.

What your child will learn

  • I can read a chart of Stone Age toolkits and say what each had and when it was made, reading years ago correctly.
  • I can say what a clue (carried stone, burned flint, fossils, cave drawings) shows, and keep a claim as careful as the clue: oldest found so far is not the first.
  • I can read when our species reached Australia, Europe and the Americas, work out the gaps, and explain why the Americas date is still debated.

Standard: D2.Geo.8.6-8 (partial)

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