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Stone Age Tools and Weapons for Kids
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Stone Age for kids
The Stone Age is the long stretch of time when people made their tools from stone. It began more than three million years ago and ended when people learned to work metal. These guides cover the tools and weapons of the Old and New Stone Age. They explain how Stone Age people found food, built houses and painted on cave walls. You can find out what the first artists drew and why so many finds come from caves. Several of these guides have quizzes and games to try.
Choose your Stone Age route
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Play & learn in Stone Age
Guides with games inside: put history in order, match the pairs, spot the myth, then take the final quiz.
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Stone Age Food: What Did Stone Age People Eat?
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Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic) Facts for Kids
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New Stone Age for Kids: Farming, Homes and Tools
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All 13 guides, A to Z
Art in the Stone Age
Art in the Stone Age: the oldest known picture-story is 51,200 years old and comes from Indonesia, not Europe. Cave paintings, carvings…
Cave Paintings in the Stone Age: The First Artists
Cave paintings are pictures that Stone Age people painted or carved on cave walls, mostly between about 40,000 and 14,000 years ago.…
How to Make a Stone Age Weapon
To make a Stone Age weapon, people chose stone that breaks cleanly, such as flint. They chipped it into a sharp point,…
Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic) Facts for Kids
The Middle Stone Age is the short middle part of the Stone Age. In Britain it ran from about 9600 BC to…
Neolithic Stone Age Houses
Neolithic houses were the first permanent homes, built when people became farmers in the New Stone Age. They were made from local…
New Stone Age for Kids: Farming, Homes and Tools
The New Stone Age is when people stopped hunting and started farming. Instead of following animals and picking wild plants, they grew…
New Stone Age Tools and Weapons
The New Stone Age, or Neolithic, was when people first became farmers, starting about 10,000 BCE in the Middle East and about…
Old Stone Age for Kids: Tools, People and Art
The Old Stone Age is the first and longest part of the human story. It began more than three million years ago,…
Old Stone Age Tools and Weapons for Kids
Old Stone Age tools were made by chipping stone into sharp edges. The oldest known are about 3.3 million years old, from…
Stone Age Facts for Kids
Stone Age facts for kids: the three periods and their dates, what people really ate and where they lived, the oldest tools…
Stone Age Food: What Did Stone Age People Eat?
For most of the Stone Age, people were hunter-gatherers. They ate wild animals, birds and fish, plus wild fruits, nuts, berries, roots…
Stone Age People
Stone Age people explained for kids: why most did not live in caves, what Cheddar Man’s DNA revealed, how long they really…
Stone Age Tools and Weapons for Kids
Stone Age tools were made by striking one stone against another to create a sharp edge, a craft called knapping. The main…
