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The Stone Age, the Paleolithic period. What do you think people ate before they discovered

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fire? Read and think. 1. Read and find out. A. How do we get information about this period?

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B. Where and how did people live? Prehistory is divided into two periods, the Stone Age

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and the Bronze and Iron Ages. The Stone Age began when the first humans emerged and began to use

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tools, about 2.5 million years ago. The first part of the Stone Age is called the Paleolithic

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period. It started about 2.5 million years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago.

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Paleolithic people were nomadic. This means they didn't live permanently in one place.

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They lived in small groups and went from one place to another looking for food.

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Paleolithic people hunted and fished to get food.

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They also collected fruits and plants.

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During this period, people discovered how to make fire.

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After that, they could cook their food.

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Paleolithic people lived in caves or huts made of tree branches and animal skins.

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They wore clothes made of animal skins, too.

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Paleolithic people made tools from stone, wood, and animal bones.

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For example, they made spears for hunting.

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Archaeologists are people who look for objects in buildings from the past.

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They have found objects such as tools and bones and cave paintings from the Paleolithic period.

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Objects and paintings give us information about Paleolithic people and how they lived.

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Archaeologists have found human bones that are up to 1 million years old in the Sierra de Atapuerca in Burgos.

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These bones are the earliest confirmed evidence of humans in Western Europe.

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There are many cave paintings in the Altamira Cave in Cantabria.

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The paintings show different animals and people's hands.

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These tools are made of bone and stone.

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The harpoons were used for fishing and the spears were used for hunting.