Y3: Stone Age - Iron Age
British History Learning Journey
Stone Age Learning Journey
Knowledge Organiser
Quiz
Read the Knowledge Organiser and try to remember some facts, then click on the link below to access the quiz. Can you score full marks?
Recommended Books
Prehistoric Adventures: Settlements: Discover Stone, Bronze and Iron Age Britain
DKfindout! Stone Age
Life in the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age - Raintree Perspectives: A Child's History of Britain
Fact Cat: History: Early Britons: Stone Age to Iron Age
Key People
Lucy (3.2 million years ago)
Lucy was discovered in 1974 in Africa, at Hadar, a site in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia. The Lucy specimen is an early australopithecine and is dated to about 3.2 million years ago.
Boxgrove Man (500,000 years ago)
Boxgrove Man is a fossil thought to belong to either a female or male Homo heidelbergensis, an extinct relative of modern humans (Homo sapiens), and dated to roughly half a million years old.
Cheddar Man (7100 years ago)
The bones of 'Cheddar Man' found in Somerset's Cheddar Gorge, are the oldest near-complete human skeleton ever found in Britain. Cheddar Man is a human male fossil found in Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, England.
Websites
THE KIDS RULE! GUIDE TO PREHISTORIC ENGLAND
Welcome to the Kids Rule! guide to Prehistoric England. Click here for more.