1. The Old Stone Age
(The Paleolithic Era)

2. The Old Stone Age or the Paleolithic Era, was a period of time that lasted until about 10,000 BC.

3. How did man survive?
Man survived by hunting animals and gathering roots, berries, leaves, and seeds.

4. Hunting
Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Era) people eventually began to hunt in groups.
Cave Art showing men hunting in groups
These antlers may have been used
as a disguise during the hunt.

5. Hunted Animals
Mammoth
Wild Boar
Reindeer

6. Roots, Berries, and Other Plant Life
Gathering...
Roots, Berries, and Other Plant Life
Scurvy Grass
Crowberry
Shabby Inkcaps
Wild Cabbage
Morel
Goosebury

7. Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Era) Tools
Man used stone, wood, and bone tools to survive during the Old Stone Age.

8. Bow found in Denmark
Hand Axe
Flint Blades used to sharpen tools
Bone Harpoon

9. Food Processing using a flint blade to skin an animal
using a flint blade to butcher
a carcass

10. Cave Art

11. Lascaux Cave

12. There was another important development – the discovery of fire.
Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Era)
Development
There was another important development – the discovery of fire
There was another important development – the discovery of fire.

13. Many Stone Age people were Nomads, or people who had no settled home.

14. Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Era)
Shelters

16. The Migration of Man