The document compares and contrasts the Paleolithic Age and Neolithic Age. In the Paleolithic Age, people got food through hunting and gathering, lived in temporary shelters like caves or bone huts, made clothing from animal fur, and used basic rock tools. In the Neolithic Age, people began farming and domesticating animals for food, lived in permanent homes made of wood or mud bricks, continued making clothing from animal fur and some places from wool or fabric, and used more advanced stone tools.

1. PREHISTORY
Paleolithic Age vs. Neolithic
Age

2. FOOD OF PALEOLITHIC AND NEOLITHIC AGES
• Paleolithic people got food by men • Neolithic people learned to farm in the
hunting for meat or Neolithic Age, so they got food by
women, children, old people, and sick farming and domesticating animals.
or injured people gathering things they
could find edible.

3. SHELTER OF PALEOLITHIC AND NEOLITHIC AGES
• Paleolithic people didn’t have • Neolithic people, unlike the Paleolithic
permanent homes, they moved to people had permanent homes. Their
where food was. Their shelters were homes were made out of timber
either mammoth bone huts or caves. (wood) or mud bricks.

4. CLOTHING FOR PALEOLITHIC AND NEOLITHIC AGES
• Paleolithic people made clothing out of • Neolithic people still made clothing out
animal fur they killed. Their climate of animal fur. In some places they
was cold, so they had to dress warm. were able to make wool or fabric.

5. TOOLS FOR PALEOLITHIC AND NEOLITHIC AGES
• Paleolthic tools were basic rock tools. • Neolithic tools were more advanced
stone tools.