History13 September 2024 (by admin) |
This week, we used some historical sources to build a picture of Early Stone Age life.
We looked at the photograph of Happisburgh beach in Norfolk in East Anglia. This beach is one of the most famous beaches in the whole country because in 2013, archaeologists discovered footprints in the mud and sand which were between 850,000 and 950,000 years old – the earliest evidence of people in Britain and almost a million years older than the footprints of late Stone Age people discovered in the sands at Formby.
We also discovered that in Early Stone Age survival depended on hunting animals and fish and gathering wild fruit, vegetables, seeds and nuts. From a range of the artefacts we found out that people made tools and weapons out of stone, especially flint, because it was very hard and could be knapped.
We are very excited about our next lesson and learning how farming changed the life of Stone Age people.