Engraved bone
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The horse engraved on a bone.
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Flint tools
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Flint engraving tools or burins. Such tools could be held like a pencil. They were used for drawing but also for cutting out pieces of bone and antler, which were then made into everyday items such as needles, fish hooks, harpoon and spear tips and jewellery.
Living in the Ice Age
Source: creswell-crags.org.uk
Resources on the Creswell Crags website about living in the Ice Age.
Visit the site http://www.creswell-crags.org.uk/Explore/virtually-the-ice-age/stone-age-people.aspxThe Ice Age on video
Source: bbc.co.uk
A selection of short BBC videos about the Ice Age.
Watch these videos on bbc.co.uk http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/ancient_earth/Last_glacial_period#intro
Surviving animals
Source: bbc.co.uk
A two-minute BBC video of animals that have survived since the Ice Age.
Watch the video on bbc.co.uk http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/history_of_the_earth/Pleistocene#p007vzdq
Ice Age art
Source: bradshawfoundation.com
Gallery of Ice Age portable art from the Bradshaw Foundation. You might want to choose a few of the engraved animals to show on the whiteboard.
Visit the site http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/sculpture/gallery.phpBritain’s landscape
Source: nhm.ac.uk
Maps from the Natural History Museum showing landscape changes in Britain.
Visit the site http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/human-origins/humans-in-britain/what-was-britain-like/changing-landscape/index.htmlOutside the classroom
Creswell Crags
Source: creswell-crags.org.uk
At Creswell Crags you can see the cave where the bone was found and Church Hole Cave with wall engravings.
Visit the site http://www.creswell-crags.org.uk/Gough's Cave
Source: cheddargorge.co.uk
There is also Ice Age occupation at Gough's Cave, Cheddar Gorge in Somerset.
Visit the site http://www.britishmuseum.org/learning/schools_and_teachers.aspxKent's Cavern
Source: kents-cavern.co.uk
Kent's Cavern in Torquay, Devon, is another cave occupied in the Upper Palaeolithic period.
Visit the site http://www.kents-cavern.co.uk/British Museum
Source: britishmuseum.org
Visit the British Museum to see Ice Age art.
Visit the site http://www.britishmuseum.org/learning/schools_and_teachers.aspx