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Name: Subject: Year 3 History

Date: Sheet: Stone Age

Cloze Exercise - Stone Age

Ice Age Neolithic stone gathering

hunter-gatherers million women hunting

Neanderthals hunted Mesolithic Britain

crops settlements bones walls

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.

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