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Children would also have been involved in gathering nuts and berries, harvesting crops when farming began, and cleaning up piles of animal dung.
I don´t have to guess; I can SMELL which chore you did.
Guess which chore I had to do today?
So, it wasn’t all excitement and glamour, you see. Nope – it was mainly hard work, with a side order of steaming poop.
Do you ever wish . . . you were allowed to drive a massive digger around? Well, back in the Stone Age you would have been
getting to grips with tools from a young age.
Flint was important as it has sharp edges, so people could use it to make knife blades, arrowheads, scrapers and axes. Pieces could also be struck together to make sparks for fire! And without that, their rhino burgers would have been totally raw. Tools were also made from polished stone, antlers and bones . . . but something big was about to happen. Metal.
People discovered how to separate copper from rock, then melted it and poured it into moulds to create tools and weapons. Then it was found that when copper was mixed with tin, it became harder and stronger. This mixture was called bronze, which was a coincidence as it was the Bronze Age. If your family could make things from metal, they could swap them for things they wanted or needed, which made them powerful.
As the Iron Age gradually emerged, people decided they’d better start making stuff from iron, or else they’d just look silly. Iron was also cheaper and stronger than bronze. And from there it was only a few thousand years before diggers were invented!
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