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Prehistory
Prehistoric London
The hunter gatherer quiz
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The hunter-gatherer quiz
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During the Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) people hunted large animals like mammoths. As the
climate warmed during the Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age), the landscape became forested.
At this time people would have hunted smaller game like deer.
People would have gathered food too, such as mushrooms, leaves, flowers, nuts and
berries. Some were good to eat but others were poisonous. Could you tell the difference?
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Do you have the skills to survive life as a
hunter gatherer?
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Animal remains give us evidence of which animals
lived in the London area during the Stone Age.
Which animal has not been found in the London area?
Sabre toothed tiger
Woolly rhinoceros
Woolly mammoth
Cave lion
Woolly mammoth
tusk and jaw
Well done!
There is no evidence of a sabre tooth tiger in prehistoric
London. However woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, cave
lion, wolf and reindeer remains have all been found!
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Your family are hungry.
How will you get food?
Pop to the shops
Order a take away
Go to the market
Hunt animals and
gather wild forest
food
Well done!
There were no shops or restaurants in the Stone Age.
People had to hunt and gather.
They would eat the meat from
the animals and birds they
caught along with foraged foods
such as nuts, fruit and roots.
I hope they
invent pizza
soon!
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You arrive on foot to an area that will one
day be London. There are no caves here.
Where will you live?
In a wooden
roundhouse
In a straw hut
In a brick house
In a tent
Well done!
The hunter gatherer lifestyle was one on the move. People would have set
up temporary camps while tracking animals. What materials do you think the
tents may have been made from? Why do you think there is no surviving
evidence of these shelters?
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You’ve been sent to gather wild forest foods.
Can you tell which foods are tasty and which are deadly?
Click on the image you don’t want to eat.
Well done!
You didn’t want to eat those poisonous fungi!
It would have been very important to
understand what you could and couldn’t eat. It
was probably the job of elders to educate the
younger members of the group as they moved
around and set up camp.
Have you ever picked your own food?
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You’ve caught a reindeer on a hunt.
What part of this animal would you use?
I’d use all of
it for lots of
different things!
I would use the
antlers to make tools
but leave the rest.
I would use the fur to
make clothes and
tent materials.
I would just
eat the meat.
Well done!
People would use as much of an
animal as possible in the Stone Age.
The hide would be scraped clean to
use for clothing, antlers were used
for tools and of course people would
eat the reindeer meat.
They would also eat the offal (organs
such as liver, kidneys and heart) and
crack open the bones to eat the fat
rich marrow.
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You make your own tools. What
materials would you find in a
Stone Age toolkit ?
plastic
stone and antler
metal
glass
Bone hammer
Flint microliths
Serrated antler
harpoon
Well done!
The materials in a Stone Age toolkit
would be stone and bone. Wood was
used too, but as this rots, less
evidence survives.
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How would you dress?
In the latest fashions
of course!
I’d knit something
from wool
I’d sew something
from cotton
I’d use animal skins
to make clothes from
fur and leather
Well done!
Clothes don't survive, so archaeologists
have to look for other clues.
These flint scrapers would have been used
for cleaning animal hides so that they could
be used to make clothes and leather.
Wool would not have been used until later in the
Neolithic period (New Stone Age) when people began
farming.
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The Ice Age is over and many of the large
animals have moved north or died out.
You’re hunting deer and wild boar in the woods.
How will you kill them?
Stalk quietly and use
a bow and arrow
With a gun
I’d chase them on
horseback
I’d lay out traps and
snares
Well done!
During the Mesolithic period, hunters would have
killed smaller prey with a bow and arrow. They also
made clearings in the forest to lure animals into.
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Congratulations!
You have the skills to survive life as a
Stone Age hunter gatherer.
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