Paleolithic Tools Poster Assignment
Your group will be researching a ______________, a tool from the late Paleolithic period. Create a poster to be shared at a class “Anthropological Conference.”
Your poster must:
Your poster must:
- List the name of the tool. (2 points)
- Provide an illustration of the tool. (Draw the tool or find a picture of the tool that you can use) (2 points)
- Describe the materials used to make the tool. (List the materials and where Paleolithic people got those materials) (4 points)
- Describe the purpose of the tool. (Describe why the tool was developed and how the tool was used). (6 points)
- Describe how the tool helped Paleolithic people meet their needs. (Be specific about what basic human survival needs this tool helped Paleolithic people meet) (6 points)
- Describe a modern tool used in the same way. (4 points)
- Describe how the development or use of the Paleolithic tool might have influenced natural systems. (Explain how plant and animal populations might have changed in size, how food sources might have changed, and how the places where people, plants, or animals lived might have changed). Be creative.) (6 points)