Stone Age Word Search
This Stone Age word search holds the tools, places and animals of the era: flint and obsidian, the hand axe and the atlatl, knapping with a hammerstone, the painted caves of Chauvet and Altamira, and the aurochs and the woolly rhino drawn on their walls.
The name comes from the tools, and the tools divide it: the Paleolithic, or old stone, the Mesolithic, the middle, and the Neolithic, or new stone, when people began to farm. Knapping means striking flint or obsidian with a hammerstone so that flakes split off with a razor edge. Obsidian is a volcanic glass, and a fresh flake is sharper than a steel scalpel. The teardrop hand axe was made in much the same way for more than a million years.
In 1879 an eight-year-old girl named Maria looked up at the ceiling of Altamira, in northern Spain, and saw painted bison. For years experts refused to believe that hunters with stone tools had made them. At Skara Brae in Orkney, a storm in 1850 stripped the sand off a Neolithic village whose houses still hold stone beds and dressers. Otzi, the iceman found in the Alps in 1991, lived at the very end of the Stone Age and carried both flint tools and a copper axe.
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Stone Age has.
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- Altamira
- Arrowhead
- Atlatl
- Aurochs
- Burin
- Cave Bear
- Charcoal
- Chauvet
- Chert
- Clan
- Cro Magnon
- Dolmen
- Emmer
- Flint
- Foraging
- Gatherer
- Hammerstone
- Hand Axe
- Henge
- Hunter
- Ice Age
- Knapping
- Menhir
- Mesolithic
- Microlith
- Neanderthal
- Neolithic
- Obsidian
- Ochre
- Otzi
- Paleolithic
- Quern
- Reindeer
- Scraper
- Shelter
- Sickle
- Sinew
- Skara Brae
- Spear
- Woolly Rhino