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Paleolithic People – Textbook Questions
Directions: Read pages 10 and 11 in your textbook and answer the following questions.
1. What does Paleolithic mean?
2. When did it begin? When did it end?
3. What did early humans do most of the time?
4. Name 4 things that they ate.
5. What is a nomad?
6. Why did they travel in groups?
7. What did Paleolithic women do?
8. What did the Paleolithic men do?
9. How did the Paleolithic people adapt to the cold and hot weather?
10. Name three that the discovery of fire helped the Paleolithic people?
11. How do historians think that Paleolithic people started fires?
12. What were the Ice Ages?
13. What were the beginning and end dates of the last Ice Age?
14. Name 2 ways that Paleolithic people adapted to the Ice Age?
15. Name two ways that Paleolithic people expressed themselves?
16. How did they make paint?
17. What did they paint?
18. How did Paleolithic people make their tools?
19. How did they make their weapons?
20. What tools did they make when they became more skilled?