Animals In The Stone Age

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Animals In The Stone Age. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 4,000 bce and 2,000 bce, with the advent of metalworking. This video looks at a few different, but very real, animals from around the stone age.

DK Find Out! Fun Facts for Kids on Animals, Earth
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Stone objects collected by prehistoric hunters were effective as throwing weapons to hunt animals, research reveals. Cows and sheep provided meat, milk, leather and bones. Foxes, birds squirrels, wolves and bears were among the animals that roamed the area.

DK Find Out! Fun Facts for Kids on Animals, Earth

Some animals that lived during the stone age are:saber tooth tigercave lioncave hyenawoolly mammothswoolly rhinoshorse (though different from the horses of today. Humans hunted for fish and pigs, dogs and cats became domesticated around the mesolithic period (middle stone age). 3.3 million years ago, an ancient species on lake turkana made stone tools and used them 700,000 years before humans existed. Before this people would have to hunt and farm with nothing but wood and stone, and so were limited to a very small list of foods.