3.1 Socio- Economic Practices of Early Humans

• The Stone Age in Africa: Early, Middle and Late Stone Age
• Socio-economic practices of early humans in the Early Stone Age
• Socio-economic practices in the Middle and Late Stone Age
• Types of tools used by early humans during the Stone Age
• Illustrating the tools used by early humans
• Africa as the birthplace of human technology, and the relevance of early practices today

• describe the socio-economic practices of early humans in Africa during the Stone Age period
• examine different types of tools used by early humans during the Stone Age period
• illustrate the tools used by early humans during the Stone Age period
• recognise the socio-economic practices of early humans

“How do socio-economic practices of early humans impact the modern society?”

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1. The Stone Age in Africa
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   Early, Middle and Late Stone Age, and the Early one lasted ten times longer than the other two.
2. Life in the Early Stone Age
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   Small wandering bands, living by gathering, hunting and scavenging, with simple stone tools and, later, fire.
3. Life in the Middle and Late Stone Age
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   Planned hunting, cooking, rock shelters, exchange between groups, and the first art and ornaments.
4. Tools of the Stone Age
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   From cobbles struck to an edge to microliths set in arrows: smaller, finer, more varied.
5. Illustrating Stone Age tools
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   Outline, ridge, flake scars, then shade and label.
6. Africa, birthplace of human technology
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   The oldest tools, every stage in order, the earliest human fossils, and practices still with us.