Webquest: Stone Age survival skills

1 You are going to go on the internet to find out about survival skills in the Stone Age! Type in www.creswell-crags.org.uk/virtuallytheiceage.
You will see Stone Age people listed on the left, click on this and then click on test your survival skills. Do the quiz to find out how you would have survived. Did you survive?!

2 Find your way around the website to answer the questions below:

1 Click on Stone Age people again at the top of the quiz. Then click on food and hunting to answer the next questions.

a What was their main source of food?
b Why was it very good to eat animal fat?

2 Go back to Stone Age people and now click on culture and creativity; what type of tools were used for drawing?

3 Click on cave art in Britain (this is part of the culture and creativity title) - what's an ibex?

4 Where was the only piece of rock art in the UK found in April 2003?

5 Click on activities at the top of the home page and see for yourself how Creswell Crags would have looked! Have you ever been to Stone Age site?

6 Go back to Stone Age people and click on pets - what was the role of dogs for the Stone Age people?

3 Finally think about all the information you have found and think about life today. Write four sentences comparing and contrasting life today and life in the Stone Age.