Stone Age to Iron Age Knowledge Organiser Year 3 Autumn Term What was the Stone Age, Bronze Timeline of events Vocabulary Age and Iron Age? 300,000 – The first humans lived in Africa. 150,000 Paleolithic Early Stone Age BCE Mesolithic Middle Stone Age Stone Age: The Stone Age was a 40,000 First cave paintings were drawn in a cave in Neolithic New Stone Age BCE Spain. time in history when early humans 10,000 Ice Age ends Neolithic Someone who lived during used tools and weapons made out BCE Man / the Stone Age. of stone. 8,000 The wheel was invented. BCE Woman 4,500 People learn to make simple pottery. Cave Early art found on caves in Bronze Age: This is a period in BCE People begin to farm. painting France in Spain of animals history between the Stone Age and 4,000 People start to domesticate and ride horses. BCE Before this, they had to walk everywhere. and hunting scenes. the Iron Age, when humans began 3,000 The wheel was invented. Fur pelt Skin of animals – used to to use metal to make tools and BCE keep people warm. 3,000 The Stone Age ends. weapons. During the Bronze Age BCE Spear A weapon used in hunting. people began to farm. Farmer 3,000 – The Bronze Age Tools Items used to help people allows more people to live and 800 BCE 2,500 Bronze Axes were developed. Soon people also with their work such as settle in one area. They could store BCE learn to make spears, daggers and other metal cutting, chopping, digging food for the winter and use it to tools and weapons. and hammering. trade for other things. 800 - 54 The Iron Age BCE Stone A famous site in England 700 BCE People begin to work with iron, which is much Henge where large stones were Iron Age: During this period, people stronger than Bronze. arranged in a circle. It is replaced their bronze tools and Small farms and network of fields are mystery how people were weapons with those made from developed. People start to farm cattle, sheep, able to get these stones in iron. Iron was much stronger pigs and as well as crops. 54 BCE The Roman Empire raids the South Coast of place without modern England. This marks the beginning of Roman machinery. With more and better tools, people Britain as the Roman Empire spreads to this Pottery Items made from sand or could do more. For example, more country. clay. people could own a metal plough. Farming Growing crop and animals They could farm their fields better for food and clothing. and grow more crops.
World War II Knowledge organiser Year 6 Autumn Term
Famous Stone Age Sites Big Inventions of the Bronze Age and Stone Age Dwellings: Iron Age Stonehenge This is a huge man made circle of in Wiltshire standing stones. It took about 1000 1 million Stone choppers and years to build. It is a mystery exactly how people built it. years knives Lascaux Stone Age cave paintings were ago Caves in discovered on the walls of these France. caves. They are about 20,000 years 8,000 First Wheel old. BCE Scotland’s This is Europe’s most complete Bronze Age Dwellings: Scara Brae Stone Age town. 4,500 First simple pottery is Altamira More cave art showing animals. made. Caves, Spain These date from 15,000 years ago. New Grange, This is an old burial tomb. Although 4,000 First rope Ireland it was built thousands of years ago, BCE during the stone age, it has a very 2,800 First soap clever design. BCE Only on the shortest day of the year 2,400 First umbrella (in Ancient each year, as the sun rises, the light fills the chamber with sunlight. This BCE Egypt)
lasts for about 15 minutes. 2,300 First plough was invented.
BCE 2,000 Kites were invented BCE during the Bronze Age in China
Iron Age Hill Fort: Stonehenge Lascaux Cave Art
Skara Brae, Orkney
Isles, Scotland Newgrange