Cloze Exercise - Stone Age

Name: Subject: Year 3 History Date: Sheet: Stone Age

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Fill in the missing words from the word bank.

The Stone Age started around 2.5 _______________ years ago when early humans first produced the first _______________ tools. The Stone Age is split into three different parts: the Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) the _______________ (Middle Stone Age) and the _______________ (New Stone Age). During the Old Stone Age humans evolved from _______________ and other groups into homo sapiens (modern humans). People survived by gathering wild nuts, fruits, and berries. They also _______________ wild animals. The tradition is that _______________ did the _______________ and men did the _______________. When the food ran out, these _______________ moved on.

The Middle Stone Age began at the end of the last _______________ when sea levels rose and _______________ became an island. In the New Stone Age, the way people lived changed significantly. People began building _______________ instead of moving from place to place. They built _______________ around their settlements to protect themselves and started to grow their own _______________ and domesticate animals. Tools for grinding, cutting and chopping were also introduced. People used _______________ for fishhooks so that they could catch fish as well as animals.

Ice Age

hunter-gatherers

Neanderthals

Neolithic

million

hunted

stone

women

Mesolithic

gathering

hunting

Britain

Score

16

crops settlements bones walls