Early Humans Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 2. How many tens of thousands of years did the last Ice Age last?
  2. 4. What did prehistoric people have to do to survive in the harsh conditions of the last Ice Age? Hint: Change.
  3. 6. The material used by prehistoric people to make nets, baskets, and to sew animal hides.
  4. 8. The last _____ Age ended 8000 B.C.
  5. 9. To make paint, prehistoric people crushed rocks with animal ______.
  6. 11. People who forage [search] for food are called hunter-_______.
  7. 13. The earliest part of the Stone Age. Also called The Old Stone Age.
  8. 15. Tool used by Brian Robeson in the novel Hatched; also used by prehistoric people.
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  1. 1. The hard stone used by hunter-gatherers to make sharp-pointed weapons.
  2. 3. Warmth, light, cooking, and for smoking meats.
  3. 4. Continent where scientists believe earliest humans lived.
  4. 5. Traveling bands of these moved from place to place in search of food.
  5. 7. A fancy word that means the ability to make tools and solve problems with tools.
  6. 10. General word for all animals hunted down.
  7. 12. The bones of this prehistoric, hairy elephant were used to make the frames of shelters in cold climates.
  8. 14. Places where prehistoric people often painted animal pictures.