IRON AGE

The Iron Age was a time in early human history when people began to use tools and weapons made of iron. The Iron Age started and ended at different times in different places. The earliest Iron Age probably took place in the Middle East and southeastern Europe. It started there in about 1200 BC.


If you click on this image you could know more facts about this Age.

IRON AGE

This site is about the Iron Age Celts who lived in Western Europe from about the 5th century BC to the first century AD - the early Celts.

IMPORTANT INVENTIONS: THE WHEEL

PALEOLITHIC VS NEOLITHIC

Fold-out timeline

Download this colourful fold-out poster and find out how life in Britain has developed from the Ice Age up to the Roman invasion.

SOME READINGS....

"Early People"

I recomend the Best Book of "Early People" as a kids book to learn about the Stone Age.
It has a series of double page picture spreads featuring scenes from the Stone Age (plus a little bit on the Bronze Age and Iron Age.) It also has lots of factual snippets to accompany the pictures. 

"The Savage Stone Age"

"The Savage Stone Age" is one of Terry Deary's awesome Horrible Histories books. It's packed with facts presenting in a way that kids, boys particularly will find very appealing.
It's silly and gruesome. The book has 128 pages and it's a great book for kids who are confidently reading by themselves. 

Stone Age Storybooks

It is John Grant's Stone Age series of books featuring "Littlenose the Neanderthal" who lives in the stone age.
These are fictional books which each include several short stories about Littlenose. They are packed with information about the Stone Age era.
The Littlenose books are perfect chapter books for kids to read themselves or for parents to read to younger children.

CAVE ART

Cave painting is one of the things we most associate with Stone Age. The cave paintings at Lascaux in France were discovered by four schoolboys in 1940. A reproduction of the caves has been created next door so you can visit, but the original paintings are protected from further deterioration.
Cave paintings show that Stone Age people had culture. Cave paintings have been found around the world.
Let's watch this video of the recreated cave paintings at Lascaux:

VIDEO: Early man in the stone age - Social Sciences

This is a Social Sciences video for kids that talks about the early men in the stone age and how he traveled for food and other needs.
If you want to read what is said in it, you have to follow this link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/k4dfl1fxjns68a5/transcription_Early%20man%20in%20the%20stone%20age.doc

BBC History: Day In The Life: Stone Age

One of four episodes created by Beakus for BBC History to help get kids in to Stong Age. This episode sees Eric, a 10-year old time-travelling boy, whizz off to prehistoric Bath, England.

STONG AGE= Paleolithic + Neolithic

Historians divide the Stone Age into different periods based on the sophistication and methods of tool design. It refers to a long period of time from around 2.5 million years ago until around 5000 years ago. There isn't an exact date range.

- The first such period is referred to as the Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age. 

  The Old Stone Age began about 2 million years ago with the development of the first tools by Homo habilis .

- The Neolithic, or New Stone Age, lasted from 8,000 years until around 5,000 years ago.

What was the Stone Age?

The Stone Age was the period of time when people made and used stone tools and before they began working with metal. The Stone Age is part of prehistory because it is before we have any written records.
The Stone Age period includes our early ancestors through to modern Homo Sapiens (our species.) During this time the Neaderthal people also lived.
People ate nuts and berries and hunted animals for meat and skins. They lived in caves or shelters made from animal bones and skins.

Fun Stone Age Facts for Kids

1. Despite what many toy manufacturers seem to think, there were no dinosaurs in the Stone Age. Dinosaurs died out around 65 million years ago. 
2. Nearly all of human history was in the Stone Age. A couple of million years of it. Only in the last 5000 years have we progressed beyond Stone Age technology. 
3. Mammoths and Saber-toothed Cats did live at the same time as Stone Age people. And Cave Bears. 
4. We often talk about The Ice Age meaning the last ice age which took place towards the end of the Stone Age. 
5. The people of North Sentinel Island in Asia are isolated and still live a Stone Age lifestyle today. 
6. Lots of animals were much bigger than their modern counterparts: Mammoths (that's how they got their name!), Saber-toothed Cats and Cave Bears were all really big. 
7. At the beginning of the Stone Age people didn't know how to make fire but made use of naturally occurring fires after lightning strikes. 
8. It wasn't just adults who created cave art, children made cave paintings too. 

TIMELINE

UNIT 13: PREHISTORY

A NEW UNIT!!!!!! IT IS TIME FOR HISTORY

We have finished the first term and we have learnt a lot about the Universe, The Earth,  the Five Kingdoms, the Environment... and we have decided to work on History. We are really excited because we all like this topic a lot. Teachers usually program the units about History at the end of the school year and sometimes we do not have enough time to work on them so, we are going to work on PREHISTORY, ANCIENT HISTORY and THE MIDDLE AGES in the Iberian Peninsula.
We are going to start from the Prehistory. Enjoy it!

VIDEO ABOUT THE PREHISTORY

Here you are a short episode of a wonderful tv serie called "Once Upon a Time...Man, Phehistory" about this period of our history. If you like it you can search in the net and look for more as this one.

PHREHISTORY WEBPAGE

PREHISTORY

Prehistory by Laura noguera from Mercedes Romero