STONE AGE CHILD:I’m starving shouldn ... Pupils can make a list of the food people ate and the tools and weapons mentioned in the clip. How might they find out more about these?

The Mesolithic period is known as the middle stone age. Stone Age people cut up their food with sharpened stones and cooked it on a fire. After a good day’s hunting people could feast on meat.

Powerful new imaging techniques reveal humans were already crafting complex hunting weapons from wood 300,000 years ago, upending the stereotype of the Stone Age.