PALEOLITHIC AND NEOLITHIC

1. Paleolithic and Neolithic
PREHISTORY
Social Science
4th
Primary

2. Food
Paleolithic Age
• Men hunted for food ,
and women recollected
food from the trees .
• They invented the fire
Neolithic Age
• People learned how to grow
the food , and people
domesticated animals
• They invented
AGRICULTURE and
FARMING .

3. Houses
Paleolithic Age
• They were nomads.
• They don’t have permanent
houses . They live in caves
• They had to move from one
place to another, where the
food was .
Neolithic Age
• They were sedentary
• They had permanent houses .
• Homes were usually made
from wood or bricks .

4. Clothing
Paleolithic Age
• Clothing was made from fur
(skin of the animals).
• The weather during the time
was very cold , so people
dressed to stay warm .
Neolithic Age
• They started to use clothes
made by the skin of the
animals
• People were knittles.

5. Questions
• In which period of the prehistory
people were sedentary?
• In which period of the prehistory
agriculture ?
• What’s the name for the people who
travel from one place to another to
look for food?
• In which period of the prehistory
people invented the fire?

6. Activities
1. Classify these words in two groups
2. Complete the sentences
In the ________________, people live in
______________, they were _____________, that is,
they move from one place to another. They __________
and ____________ fruits from the trees. They invented
____________. In the _______________, people were
_____________, that is, they live in their houses. They
invented ____________ and _____________.
SEDENTARY – FIRE – AGRICULTURE – NOMADS – HUNTING –
CAVES – HOUSES – FARMING
NEOLITHIC - SEDENTARY – FIRE – AGRICULTURE – NOMADS –
HUNTED – PALEOLITHIC - CAVES – HOUSES – RECOLLECTED -
FARMING

7. JOURNAL
1. Write two sentences about Paleolithic and
two sentences about Neolithic. Then, make a
picture of each.