Studies Grade 8 Social

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Studies Grade 8 Social
People Through The Ages
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Section 1 The Stone Age
Survival Skills
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Fire Making

• Stone age people used fire to keep warm, cook
  food and for protection from predators. Before
  they learned to make fire they had to get it from
  lightning strikes or volcanoes. They may have
  stolen it from other bands.

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Tool Making

• This type of tool making was invented by the
  Cro-Magnons and was called flaking. Another name
  for it is stone tool making. Some tools that are
  made with this method are knives, axes,
  scrappers, hammers, awls, needles, spears,
  harpoons, clubs and shields. Besides
  Cro-Magnons, the Stone Age People that used this
  method are the Clovis people. This method is
  superior to other tool making methods of the
  Stone Age age because they were much thicker and
  stronger. The materials that were used for the
  chisel are animal horn and bone. The materials
  that were used for the hammer are antler hammer,
  antler punch and stone. The types of rock that
  were placed under the chisel to be made into
  flakes are flint.