1.2 Hunter-gatherers

• History
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

General rules during history class:

• phones on airplane mode (or off) in your bag
• chromebooks stay closed
• have your textbook, a notebook & pen on your desk

1. The Age of Hunters and Farmers

1.2 Hunter-gatherers

What you will learn in 

this lesson

• what are hunter-gatherers?
• what are sources?
• why are sources important to learn about prehistoric people?
• why did hunter-gatherers live in small groups?
• why did hunter-hatherers have only few belongings?
• how did hunter-gatherers adapt to the climate?

Word Duty

Cave paintings: paintings made in caves by prehistoric humans

Prehistory: time in history before people could read and write

Sources: remains from the past

Hunting-gathering: a way of living where people hunt animals and gather food like plants and berries to survive

Nomads: people who do not live in a fixed place

Link to WRTS wordlist for all the other difficult words: WRTS HISTORY

KEY WORDS

lesson 1.2: Hunter-gatherers

For thousands of years humans lived from hunting animals and gathering fruits and vegetables. This way of life is called: hunter-gathering.

Hunter-gatherers were nomads: they moved from place to place, following the animals they hunted.

They lived in small groups, between 20 - 30 people.

Jagers en Boeren

Regenten en Vorsten

Grieken en Romeinen

Monniken en Ridders

Steden en Staten

Ontdekkers en Hervormers

Pruiken en Revoluties

Burgers en Stoommachines

Wereldoorlogen

Televisie en Computers

Create the correct story of the video by dragging the texts to the correct place.

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Europe suffered from an Ice Age while Africa became hot and dry.

Neanderthals became extinct.

1 million years ago Heidelbergensis lived 

in Europe and Africa

30,000 years ago Homo Sapiens migrated from Africa 

to Europe

The climate changed:

Homo Sapiens is the only remaining species of humans.

Heidelbergensis could not use imagination as we can

European Heidelbergensis evolved into Neanderthals and African Heidelbergensis into Homo Sapiens

sources (= bronnen)

• the people we study in history are all gone. They can no longer tell us what happened.
• So, how do we know what happened in the past?
• Answer: from the remains they left behind. 
• These remains are called SOURCES. 
• All the sources together make up the story of history.
• There are many different types of sources: 
• for instance: written and unwritten sources
• Examples of unwritten sources are:

written 

sources

unwritten sources

Drag the pictures to the correct place

sources are important because they give us:

1. water
2. information
3. solutions
4. a narrative

now, write down some examples of

unwritten sources

now, write down some examples of
written sources