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The Great Migration

What items would you take with

you, if you had to leave your
The lack of a permanent place to live is one of the home?
main differences between Stone Age people of the

Palaeolithic age and the Neolithic age.

Having to rely on the land and nature was one of the big reasons

for this. If they knew that a certain area was going to be too
Tent cold, due to exposure to the weather, or that food wasn’t going

to be available, moving may have been the only option.

Blanket Osha and her family were lucky that they only had

to move twice a year. Years before, groups of

people would move on regularly, maybe every
couple of months. It may have been that Osha would

never see the cave again!
Sleep mat – made

from layers of leaves

and pressed soil. Then These essentials for living in
covered in woven a camp would have had to be

grasses. portable.

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