PREHISTORY ACTIVITY

We are going to work with the next chart, where main prehistoric concepts are contained. You can download this chart or to copy it, and then you will fill out with the sentences written below.

                                                  Prehistory table from CRISTINA SEVILLA ZAMORA

GEOGRAPHIC SITUATION:

1. Africa and Asia. 

2. All continents

3. Africa.

4. Africa, Asia and Europe.

MATERIAL AND TOOLS:

1. They used polished stone to make tools as hoes, sickles and hand mills. They invented pottery too.

2. They made stone tools, that they used to hunt and cut animals' skins and meat.

3. They made metal objects (using copper, bronze and iron). They made tools as the plough.

SOCIETY ORGANIZATION:  

1. They lived in villages encircled by a fence. Work became specialised in villages (artisans or craftsmen).

2. The society started to be unequal because social divisions were created and professions such as warrior, priest or trader appeared.

3. They were organised in small tribes (horde), made up by members of the same family.

ECONOMY:

1. Humans live from farming (agriculture and stockbreeding), but they started to trade with other territories, due to sailing was developed during this period.

2. Humans learned to domesticate animals and cultivate plants as wheat, rice and grain.

3. The first human beings lived from hunting, fishing and gathering.

HOUSING:

1. They lived in cities, surrounded by walls and they had buildings as shops, workshops, even tombs.

2. They lived outdoors, in caves or in wood huts. They were nomadic (they did not live ina a fixed place).

3. They lived in huts built with adobe and straw. They became sedentary when they started to live in fixed villages.

ART:

1. Palaeolithic people painted in caves (cave art). They painted realistic animals (Cantabrian paintings). They made small female sculptures, called venus.

2. Metal people built monuments with big blocks os stone, called megaliths. The most important megalithic monuments were menhirs, dolmens and stone circles.

3. Neolithic people decorated rocky shelters. The paintings were not realistic as in Paleolithic art but simplified figures (Levantine paintings).