{"id":20219,"date":"2021-06-21T13:50:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T17:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/?p=20219"},"modified":"2021-06-21T13:51:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T17:51:16","slug":"early-humans-and-the-stone-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/early-humans-and-the-stone-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Humans and the Stone Age"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e9713697ea7\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e9713697ea7\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/early-humans-and-the-stone-age\/#Stone_Age_Fiction\" >Stone Age: Fiction<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/early-humans-and-the-stone-age\/2\/#Stone_Age_Nonfiction\" >Stone Age: Nonfiction<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/early-humans-and-the-stone-age\/2\/#Stone_Age_Art\" >Stone Age Art<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/early-humans-and-the-stone-age\/3\/#How_the_Wolf_Became_the_Dog\" >How the Wolf Became the Dog<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/early-humans-and-the-stone-age\/3\/#Human_Evolution\" >Human Evolution<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/early-humans-and-the-stone-age\/4\/#Movies\" >Movies<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/early-humans-and-the-stone-age\/4\/#Projects_and_Activities\" >Projects and Activities<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Stone_Age_Fiction\"><\/span>Stone Age: Fiction<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 2855px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 234px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 42.931%; height: 234px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/me-hungry-274x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/me-hungry-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/me-hungry.jpg 548w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.069%; height: 234px;\">\n<p>In Jeremy Tankard\u2019s <em>Me Hungry!<\/em> (Candlewick, 2008), a small Stone-Age boy\u2019s plea of \u201cMe hungry!\u201d only gets a \u201cMe busy!\u201d from his preoccupied parents \u2013 so off he goes hunting on his own. He deals with a rabbit, a porcupine, and a tiger \u2013 until he gets some help from an also-hungry woolly mammoth. For ages 4-7.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 184px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 42.931%; height: 184px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20246\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kalis-song-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kalis-song-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kalis-song-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kalis-song.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.069%; height: 184px;\">\n<p>In Jeanette Winter\u2019s <em>Kali\u2019s Song<\/em> (Schwartz &amp; Wade, 2012), Stone-Age Kali must learn to hunt \u2013 but instead discovers that he can make music by plucking the string of his bow. A charmer for ages 4-7.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 184px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 42.931%; height: 184px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20242\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/how-to-wash-a-mammoth-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/how-to-wash-a-mammoth-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/how-to-wash-a-mammoth-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/how-to-wash-a-mammoth-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/how-to-wash-a-mammoth-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/how-to-wash-a-mammoth.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.069%; height: 184px;\">\n<p>Michelle Robinson\u2019s <em>How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth<\/em> (Henry Holt and Company, 2014) has next to nothing to say about prehistory, but it\u2019s a delightful bathtime picture book. With a woolly mammoth. For ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 334px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 42.931%; height: 334px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20252\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/miks-mammoth-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/miks-mammoth-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/miks-mammoth.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.069%; height: 334px;\">\n<p>In Roy Gerrard\u2019s <em>Mik\u2019s Mammoth<\/em> (Sunburst, 1992), Mik, the title character, though small and timid, is also imaginative and smart; when his tribe inadvertently leaves him behind, he adopts a baby mammoth and finds a cozy cave in which to shelter for the winter. Eventually, he learns to plant a garden, fish, and paint pictures on his cave walls; and finally he and his mammoth save his erstwhile tribe from an attack by fierce \u201chairy men,\u201d for which he is made chief. A simple rhyming text for ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 259px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 42.931%; height: 259px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stone-age-boy-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stone-age-boy-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stone-age-boy.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.069%; height: 259px;\">\n<p>In Satoshi Kitamura\u2019s <em>Stone Age Boy<\/em> (Walker, 2008), a young boy out on a walk trips and falls into the Stone Age, where he meets a girl his own age and learns about her tribe\u2019s way of life. After another fall, he returns to his own time, where his family insists it was all a dream \u2013 but he\u2019s so fascinated by the experience that he grows up to be an archaeologist. For ages 6-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 312px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 42.931%; height: 312px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20275\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sunset-of-sabertooth-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sunset-of-sabertooth-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sunset-of-sabertooth.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.069%; height: 312px;\">\n<p>One of Mary Pope Osborne\u2019s Magic Tree House series, in <em>Sunset of the Sabertooth<\/em> (Random House, 1996), Jack and Annie are sent back to the time of the cave people and the woolly mammoths. Unfortunately they arrive wearing nothing but bathing suits. For ages 6-9.<\/p>\n<p>Also see <em>Sabertooths and the Ice Age<\/em> (Random House, 2005), the fact-filled nonfiction companion to the book.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 334px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 42.931%; height: 334px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/one-small-blue-bead-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/one-small-blue-bead-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/one-small-blue-bead.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.069%; height: 334px;\">\n<p>Byrd Baylor\u2019s lyrical <em>One Small Blue Bead<\/em> (Atheneum, 1992) centers around a Stone-Age tribe that believes they must be the only people in the world. One old man, however, isn\u2019t so sure: \u201cThere must be caves just like our own\/Somewhere\/And other axes made of stone\/Somewhere\/And other men like me.\u201d Eventually he sets off on a quest, returning with a strange boy from a different tribe and a blue bead, which last becomes a hopeful symbol of friendship and brotherhood. For ages 7-10.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 484px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 42.931%; height: 484px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20277\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ug-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ug-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ug-770x1024.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ug-768x1021.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ug-1155x1536.jpg 1155w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ug.jpg 1199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.069%; height: 484px;\">\n<p>In Raymond Briggs\u2019s <em>Ug: Boy Genius of the Stone Age <\/em>(Knopf, 2002), the Stone Age is <em>all<\/em> stone. Ug and his parents sleep in stone beds under stone blankets; and Ug, to his great discomfort, is even made to wear stone pants. As boy genius, however, Ug has ideas ahead of his time. (\u201cWhy can\u2019t trousers be made of something else? Something softer?\u201d) Eventually he invents the wheel and cooking, only to have both rejected by his parents, who don\u2019t know how to cope with him. (\u201cHe\u2019ll end up painting animals on the walls!\u201d his mother cries in despair.) Which, in a final scene, Ug, now a grown man, does. The book, drawn in blocky panel cartoons, is funny, clever, and ultimately poignant; what looks like a joke soon becomes a parable about the difficulties inherent in trying to change the world for the better. For ages 7-11.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 184px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 42.931%; height: 184px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/your-mother-was-a-neanderthal-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/your-mother-was-a-neanderthal-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/your-mother-was-a-neanderthal.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.069%; height: 184px;\">\n<p>In Jon Scieszka\u2019s <em>Your Mother Was a Neanderthal<\/em> (Puffin, 2004) Joe, Sam, and Fred \u2013 the zany \u201cTime Warp Trio\u201d \u2013 by means of a magic book end up in the Stone Age. (It\u2019s not history, but it\u2019s fun, which is what <em>leads<\/em> to history.) For ages 7-11.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 262px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 42.931%; height: 262px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Stig-of-the-Dump-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Stig-of-the-Dump-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Stig-of-the-Dump.jpg 413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.069%; height: 262px;\">\n<p>In Clive King\u2019s <em>Stig of the Dump<\/em> (Open Road Media, 2016), Barney falls into a chalk pit and meets Stig, a displaced cave boy dressed in a rabbit skin and living in an improvised den made of trash. Many adventures follow. A classic for ages 8-11.<\/p>\n<p>See these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachingideas.co.uk\/library\/books\/stig-of-the-dump\">Teaching Ideas and Resources<\/a> for <em>Stig of the Dump<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 84px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 42.931%; height: 84px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.069%; height: 84px;\">\n<p>Also see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0295635\/\">Stig of the Dump miniseries<\/a> (2002).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 42.931%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20230\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/boy-with-bronze-axe-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/boy-with-bronze-axe-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/boy-with-bronze-axe-672x1024.jpg 672w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/boy-with-bronze-axe-768x1170.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/boy-with-bronze-axe.jpg 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.069%;\">\n<p>In Kathleen Fidler\u2019s <em>The Boy with the Bronze Axe<\/em> (Kelpies, 2012) two Stone-Age kids from the Orkney village of Skara Brae are trapped by the tide \u2013 and then rescued by a strange boy in a strange boat, armed with an axe like nothing they\u2019ve ever seen before. Soon their village is struggling to cope with new technology. For ages 8-12.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 42.931%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/skara_brae_-_geograph-org-uk_-_582968-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/skara_brae_-_geograph-org-uk_-_582968-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/skara_brae_-_geograph-org-uk_-_582968.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.069%;\">\n<p>Learn about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/uk\/discover\/history\/general-history\/skara-brae\/\">village of Skara Brae<\/a> \u2013 which was abandoned around 2500 BCE.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 42.931%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20271\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stone-age-news-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stone-age-news-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stone-age-news.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.069%;\">\n<p>Fiona MacDonald\u2019s <em>The Stone Age News<\/em> (Candlewick Press, 2001) is a quirky history of the period in newspaper format, right down to the classified ads, fashion tips, and cooking columns. Features include \u201cTen Uses for a Mammoth,\u201d \u201cBjorn\u2019s Battle Tips,\u201d and \u2013 for hopeful homeowners \u2013 \u201cA Cave of My Own.\u201d For ages 8-12.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 42.931%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/maroo-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/maroo-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/maroo.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.069%;\">\n<p>Ann Turnbull\u2019s <em>Maroo of the Winter Caves<\/em> (Clarion Books, 2004) is a Stone Age survival story. Maroo\u2019s family is stranded by a blizzard and she and her younger brother, Otak, must cross the treacherous White Mountain to get help. For ages 8-12.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 42.931%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20233\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/could-you-survive-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/could-you-survive-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/could-you-survive.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.069%;\">\n<p>By Thomas Kingsley Troupe, <em>Could You Survive the New Stone Age?<\/em> (Capstone, 2020) is an interactive prehistoric adventure \u2013 see if you could survive if you suddenly traveled back in time to the Stone Age. Twenty different endings. For ages 8-12.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 42.931%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20224\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/A-is-for-AARRGH-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/A-is-for-AARRGH-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/A-is-for-AARRGH.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.069%;\">\n<p>William J. Brooke\u2019s <em>A is for AARRGH!<\/em> (HarperTrophy, 2000) is a humorous \u2013 but ultimately serious &#8211; novel about the acquisition of language. The rest of the tribe points and grunts, but young Mog uses mouth noises to name and identify objects. Once the tribe picks up on that, Mog goes on to invent adjectives, adverbs, verbs, and past and future tenses, and eventually even the crucial word \u201cif,\u201d which allows an equally creative young girl to invent storytelling. Language has its downside too; when Mog and the girl leave the tribe, Drog \u2013 a lazy, but cunning, lug \u2013 comes up with words that lead to bureaucracy, money, ownership, and debt. Luckily Mog returns in time to save the day. For ages 9-12.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 42.931%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/wild-way-home-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/wild-way-home-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/wild-way-home.jpg 326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.069%;\">\n<p>In Sophie Kirtley\u2019s <em>The Wild Way Home<\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2020), Charlie\u2019s new baby brother is born with a life-threatening heart condition \u2013 and Charlie, devastated, flees to the neighboring forest. There he (or she; Charlie\u2019s gender isn\u2019t made clear) stumbles into the world of the Stone Age, meets a prehistoric boy who is looking for his baby sister &#8211; and the two form a bond over issues of family, courage, and survival. For ages 9-12.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 42.931%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20228\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/bone-from-dry-sea-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/bone-from-dry-sea-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/bone-from-dry-sea.jpg 328w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.069%;\">\n<p>Peter Dickinson\u2019s <em>A Bone from a Dry Sea<\/em> (Open Road Media, 2015) juxtaposes the story of a bright young female hominid named Li, growing up in Africa two million years ago, with the story of teenaged Vinny, spending the summer with her archaeologist father, who is excavating the site where Li and her people once lived.\u00a0 For ages 12 and up.<\/p>\n<p>Also by Dickinson, see <em>The Kin<\/em> (Puffin, 2003), set in a tribal society of 200,000 years ago, in which a group of children are cut off from their \u201cKin\u201d \u2013 the Moonhawks \u2013 and must survive on their own in a hostile world full of volcanoes, deserts, giant lions, and evil shamans. For ages 10 and up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stone Age: Nonfiction<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 1276px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 234px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 43.4483%; height: 234px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20269\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stone-age-dkfindout-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stone-age-dkfindout-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stone-age-dkfindout.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.5517%; height: 234px;\">\n<p><em>Stone Age<\/em> (DK, 2017), a DKfindout! book, is filled with photos of artifacts, paintings, maps, reproductions, and fascinating facts. Topics include \u201cWhat is the Stone Age?,\u201d \u201cMeet a Stone Age human,\u201d \u201cMaking tools,\u201d \u201cTaming wolves,\u201d \u201cCave painting,\u201d \u201cStone Age facts and figures,\u201d and more. For ages 6-9.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 312px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 43.4483%; height: 312px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stone-age-williams-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stone-age-williams-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stone-age-williams-815x1024.jpg 815w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stone-age-williams-768x965.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stone-age-williams.jpg 1193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.5517%; height: 312px;\">\n<p>By Marcia Williams, <em>The Stone Age: Hunters, Gatherers, and Woolly Mammoths<\/em> (Walker Books, 2016), illustrated in panel-cartoon style, is crammed with cleverly presented information. Chapters include \u201cThe Last Neanderthal,\u201d \u201cHunter Gatherers,\u201d \u201cThe Miracle of Fire,\u201d \u201cFrom Nomads to Farmers,\u201d and \u201dThe End of the Stone Age.\u201d For ages 6-10.<\/p>\n<p>See these <a href=\"https:\/\/clpe.org.uk\/teaching-notes-stone-age-hunters-gatherers-and-woolly-mammoths-marcia-williams\">Teaching Notes<\/a> to accompany the book.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 262px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 43.4483%; height: 262px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20235\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/early-humans-eyewitness-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/early-humans-eyewitness-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/early-humans-eyewitness.jpg 357w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.5517%; height: 262px;\">\n<p>William Lindsay\u2019s <em>Prehistoric Life<\/em> (DK, 2012), one of the Eyewitness series, traces the origins of life on Earth from primitive bacteria to the evolution of humans, illustrated with wonderful photos of fossils and models. For ages 8 and up.<\/p>\n<p>In the same series, see Nick Merriman\u2019s <em>Early Humans<\/em> (DK, 2005).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 309px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 43.4483%; height: 309px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20285\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/61G220JNHPL-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/61G220JNHPL-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/61G220JNHPL.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.5517%; height: 309px;\">\n<p>In John Malam\u2019s <em>You Wouldn\u2019t Want to Be a Mammoth Hunter<\/em> (Franklin Watts, 2004), one of the catchy and informational You Wouldn\u2019t Want to Be\u2026series, readers learn about the Ice Age through humorous illustrations and a reader-friendly, second-person text. Sample chapters are \u201cIt\u2019s Cold! Living in the Ice Age,\u201d \u201cWeapons! A Mammoth Hunter\u2019s Toolkit,\u201d \u201cFeast! Mammoth for Dinner,\u201d and \u201cLong March! Crossing the Land Bridge.\u201d For ages 8-12.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 159px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 43.4483%; height: 159px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/savage-stone-age-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/savage-stone-age-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/savage-stone-age.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.5517%; height: 159px;\">\n<p>From Terry Dreary\u2019s Horrible Histories series, <em>Savage Stone Age<\/em> (Scholastic, 2016) is a catchy and delightful history (\u201cwith all the nasty bits left in\u201d). For ages 8-12.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stone Age Art<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 42.4138%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/the-first-drawing-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/the-first-drawing-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/the-first-drawing.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.5862%;\">\n<p>\u201cImagine\u2026you were born before the invention of drawing, more than thirty thousand years ago.\u201d Mordicai Gerstein\u2019s <em>The First Drawing<\/em> (Little, Brown, 2013) is a delightful picture-book account of an imaginative Stone-Age child who sees images of animals in clouds, rocks, and cave walls. For ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 42.4138%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/first-painter-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/first-painter-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/first-painter.jpg 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.5862%;\">\n<p>In Kathryn Lasky\u2019s <em>First Painter<\/em> (Dorling Kindersley, 2000) young Mishoo becomes her tribe\u2019s Dream Catcher after her mother dies. The tribe is starving during a drought, and Mishoo dreams that to save them she must go to the she-tiger\u2019s cave. There she traces the shapes of animals in charcoal on the stone walls and then paints them with colored clay. The painted animals seem to come alive. Mishoo paints for three days and when she at last emerges from the cave, it is raining. The illustrations are beautiful and the book includes an extensive bibliography on cave painting. For ages 7-9.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 42.4138%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20234\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/discovery-in-cave-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/discovery-in-cave-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/discovery-in-cave.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.5862%;\">\n<p>Mark Dubowski\u2019s <em>Discovery in the Cave<\/em> (Random House, 2010), a Level 4 Step into Reading book, is the story of the discovery of the Lascaux Cave by four teenage boys and a dog. For ages 7-9.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 42.4138%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Lascaux_painting-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Lascaux_painting-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Lascaux_painting.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.5862%;\">\n<p>Take a <a href=\"https:\/\/archeologie.culture.fr\/lascaux\/fr#\/en\/00.xml\/\">virtual tour<\/a> of the Lascaux Cave.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 42.4138%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20256\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/painters-of-the-caves-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/painters-of-the-caves-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/painters-of-the-caves.jpg 393w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.5862%;\">\n<p>Patricia Lauber\u2019s <em>Painters of the Caves<\/em> (Scholastic, 1999) is a nonfiction account of prehistoric art, illustrated with wonderful color photographs. Based on cave paintings and fossil finds, Lauber creates a detailed picture of prehistoric life. For ages 8-12.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 42.4138%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20229\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/boy-of-painted-cave-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/boy-of-painted-cave-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/boy-of-painted-cave.jpg 411w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.5862%;\">\n<p>Justin Denzel\u2019s <em>The Boy of the Painted Cave<\/em> (Puffin, 1996) is the story of Tao, a fatherless boy with a crippled foot, who can never be a Chosen One and therefore is forbidden to be a cave painter. Rejected by his clan, Tao finds himself gradually beginning to question many of the tribal beliefs. Eventually he tames a wolf (forbidden), travels to the forbidden lands (forbidden), finds a mentor who teaches him how to paint, and triumphs over adversity, prejudice, and superstition. For ages 9-12.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 42.4138%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20257\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/painting_mammoth8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/painting_mammoth8-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/painting_mammoth8.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.5862%;\">\n<p>Learn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.primitiveways.com\/paint_a_mammoth.html\">how to paint a mammoth<\/a> \u2013 the Paleolithic way. Included are instructions for making your own pigments and paint brushes.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 42.4138%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/moving-box-cardboard-buy-online-onlineshop-THIMM-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/moving-box-cardboard-buy-online-onlineshop-THIMM-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/moving-box-cardboard-buy-online-onlineshop-THIMM-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/moving-box-cardboard-buy-online-onlineshop-THIMM.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.5862%;\">\n<p>Got a giant cardboard box? For the youngest kids, add a flashlight and markers, crawl inside, and turn it into a painted Stone Age cave.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 42.4138%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cave-painting-chauvet-e1470616787198-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cave-painting-chauvet-e1470616787198-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cave-painting-chauvet-e1470616787198-768x564.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cave-painting-chauvet-e1470616787198.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.5862%;\">\n<p>Werner Herzog\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1664894\/\">Cave of Forgotten Dreams<\/a> (2010) is a superb documentary on the 30,000-year-old paintings in the Chauvet caves in southern France.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 42.4138%;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.5862%;\">\n<p>From the Smithsonian, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/journey-oldest-cave-paintings-world-180957685\/\">A Journey to the Oldest Cave Paintings in the World<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 42.4138%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20264\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/secretsofstonehenge-297x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/secretsofstonehenge-297x300.png 297w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/secretsofstonehenge-768x776.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/secretsofstonehenge.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.5862%;\">\n<p>By Mike Manning, <em>The Secrets of Stonehenge<\/em> (Frances Lincoln Children\u2019s Books, 2013) covers the history of this awe-inspiring ancient monument. (How did Stone-Age people manage to build it?) For ages 7-11.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 42.4138%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20273\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stonehenge-model-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stonehenge-model-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stonehenge-model.jpg 484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.5862%;\">\n<p>Check out this beautiful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Aedes-Aedes_1268-Aedes-Ars-Stonehenge-Model\/dp\/B004YW3ZRK\">Stonehenge Model Kit<\/a>, which consists of 121 ceramic pieces which simulate stone.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 42.4138%;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 57.5862%;\">\n<p>There are also dozens of online Stonehenge model suggestions \u2013 try <a href=\"https:\/\/stufftodoathome.com\/make-a-stonehenge-model\/\">this one<\/a>, from homemade salt dough.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How the Wolf Became the Dog<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 1372px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 259px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.1379%; height: 259px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20238\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/first-dog-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/first-dog-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/first-dog.jpg 433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.8621%; height: 259px;\">\n<p>Jan Brett\u2019s <em>The First Dog<\/em> (Voyager Books, 1992) is the exquisitely illustrated picture-book tale of Kip, an Ice-Age boy, who is followed home by a paleowolf, begging for a taste of Kip\u2019s roasted woolly-rhino bones. En route, the wolf saves Kip from assorted dangers, among them a menacing saber-toothed cat, after which the two strike a deal: protection in exchange for food. For ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 209px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.1379%; height: 209px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pushinka.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pushinka.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pushinka-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.8621%; height: 209px;\">\n<p>By Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut, <em>Pushinka the Barking Fox<\/em> (Persnickety Press, 2019) is the story of a domestication experiment with a silver fox pup \u2013 which may just show us how wolves became dogs. Illustrated with photos. For ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 209px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.1379%; height: 209px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/once-a-wolf-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/once-a-wolf-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/once-a-wolf-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/once-a-wolf-768x1154.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/once-a-wolf-1022x1536.jpg 1022w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/once-a-wolf.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.8621%; height: 209px;\">\n<p>By geneticist Bryan Sykes, <em>Once a Wolf<\/em> (Liveright, 2019) traces the science of the \u201castonishing\u201d evolution of our best friend \u2013 which likely literally began when a human child adopted a wolf cub. An interesting and reader-friendly account for teens and adults.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 184px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.1379%; height: 184px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20241\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/how-to-tame-a-fox-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/how-to-tame-a-fox-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/how-to-tame-a-fox-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/how-to-tame-a-fox-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/how-to-tame-a-fox.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.8621%; height: 184px;\">\n<p>By Lee Alan Dugartkin and Lyudmila Trut, <em>How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)<\/em> (University of Chicago Press, 2019) is the story of an attempt to study the evolution of the domesticated dog \u2013 using Siberian foxes. For teen and adults.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 209px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.1379%; height: 209px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/alpha-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/alpha-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/alpha-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/alpha-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/alpha.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.8621%; height: 209px;\">\n<p>In the movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4244998\/\">Alpha<\/a> (2018), an adventure\/survival story set in the last Ice Age, a young man is injured on his first hunt and separated from his tribe. Alone in the wilderness, he tames a wolf and together the pair set out to find their way home. Rated PG-13.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 109px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.1379%; height: 109px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.8621%; height: 109px;\">\n<p>From the <em>Smithsonian<\/em>, read about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/how-wolves-really-became-dogs-180970014\/\">science behind <em>Alpha<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 109px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.1379%; height: 109px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.8621%; height: 109px;\">\n<p>See this short hyperlinked article on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/evolution\/library\/01\/5\/l_015_02.html\">Evolution of the Dog<\/a> from PBS.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 84px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.1379%; height: 84px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.8621%; height: 84px;\">\n<p>Also see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/woof-all-about-dogs\/\">WOOF! All About Dogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Human Evolution<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 2447px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 184px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.4828%; height: 184px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/magic-school-bus-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/magic-school-bus-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/magic-school-bus.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.5172%; height: 184px;\">\n<p>In Joanna Cole\u2019s <em>The Magic School Bus Explores Human Evolution<\/em> (Scholastic, 2021), Arnold wants to know more about his family tree \u2013 so the marvelous Ms. Frizzle takes her class back 3.5 billion years in time. For ages 4-9.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 284px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.4828%; height: 284px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/story-of-people-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/story-of-people-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/story-of-people.jpg 354w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.5172%; height: 284px;\">\n<p>By Catherin Barr, <em>The Story of People<\/em> (Frances Lincoln Children\u2019s Books, 2019) is a whirlwind tour of the history of humankind from early hominids to the present day, illustrated with colorful childlike drawings. It\u2019s necessarily truncated \u2013 all of human history in 40 pages? \u2013 but is still a good jumping-off point for younger kids. Read it together and prepare to answer lots of questions. For ages 5 and up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 234px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.4828%; height: 234px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20249\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mammals-who-morph-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mammals-who-morph-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mammals-who-morph.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.5172%; height: 234px;\">\n<p>Jennifer Morgan\u2019s <em>Mammals Who Morph<\/em> (Dawn Publications, 2006) is an excellent history of mammalian evolution, from the tiny mammals who survived the asteroid strike that did in the dinosaurs through an amazing range of new animals: horses, whales, elephants, people. For ages 6-11.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 234px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.4828%; height: 234px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20278\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/when-we-became-humans-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/when-we-became-humans-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/when-we-became-humans.jpg 359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.5172%; height: 234px;\">\n<p>Michael Bright\u2019s <em>When We Became Humans<\/em> (words &amp; pictures, 2019) is a well-done illustrated guide to human evolution beginning with the first tiny primates who lived 65 million years ago and proceeding through the anatomical and behavioral changes that led to modern humans. A good pick for ages 7-11.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 234px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.4828%; height: 234px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20237\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/evolution-the-human-story-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/evolution-the-human-story-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/evolution-the-human-story.jpg 530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.5172%; height: 234px;\">\n<p>By Alice Roberts, <em>Evolution: The Human Story<\/em> (DK, 2018), a gorgeously illustrated and designed overview, begins with fossils and the geological record and goes on to cover primates, hominins, the human migration out of Africa, and the transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers. For ages 13 and up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 309px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.4828%; height: 309px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20243\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/human-evolution-coloring-book-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/human-evolution-coloring-book-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/human-evolution-coloring-book.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.5172%; height: 309px;\">\n<p>Learn through coloring! Adrienne L. Zihlman\u2019s <em>The Human Evolution Coloring Book<\/em> (HarperCollins, 2001) covers a wide range of topics from Darwin\u2019s discoveries through evidence for evolution, Mendelian genetics, Earth history, primate diversity, early hominids, and the rise of <em>Homo sapiens<\/em>. Black-and-white to-be-colored illustrations are paired with a detailed text. 300+ pages for teens and adults. Pair with a pack of colored pencils.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 209px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.4828%; height: 209px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sapiens-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sapiens-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sapiens.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.5172%; height: 209px;\">\n<p>Subtitled \u201cA Brief History of Humankind,\u201d Yuval Noah Harari\u2019s <em>Sapiens<\/em> (Harper Perennial, 2018) traces the story of our species \u2013 beginning 100,000 years ago when at least six different species of humans lived on Earth. A fascinating read for teens and adults.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 134px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.4828%; height: 134px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20289\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.5172%; height: 134px;\">\n<p>From the American Museum of Natural History, see this YouTube presentation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DZv8VyIQ7YU\">7 Million Years of Human Evolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 159px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.4828%; height: 159px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.5172%; height: 159px;\">\n<p>From the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, see <a href=\"https:\/\/humanorigins.si.edu\/education\/introduction-human-evolution\">What does it mean to be human?<\/a> \u2013 an online introduction to human evolution with lesson plans, fun facts, a glossary, and more.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 39px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.4828%; height: 39px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.5172%; height: 39px;\">See this illustrated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/essential-timeline-understanding-evolution-homo-sapiens-180976807\/\">Evolutionary Timeline of Homo sapiens<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 159px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.4828%; height: 159px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.5172%; height: 159px;\">\n<p>From National Geographic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/adventure\/article\/human-evolution-101\">Human Evolution 101<\/a> includes short explanations of how evolution works, the major milestones in human evolution, and the question of the \u201cmissing link.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 75px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.4828%; height: 75px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.5172%; height: 75px;\">Human evolution was complicated. From Scientific American, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-scientists-discovered-the-staggering-complexity-of-human-evolution\/\">How Scientists Discovered the Staggering Complexity of Human Evolution<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 109px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.4828%; height: 109px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20227\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/big-history-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/big-history-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/big-history-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/big-history-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/big-history-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/big-history.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.5172%; height: 109px;\">\n<p>On YouTube from Big History, see this fifteen-minute crash course in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UPggkvB9_dc\">Human Evolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 84px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.4828%; height: 84px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.5172%; height: 84px;\">\n<p>Also see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/charles-darwin-and-the-theory-of-evolution\/\">Evolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Movies<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 44.3103%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ice-age.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"212\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.6897%;\">\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0268380\/\">Ice Age<\/a> (2002) a lugubrious mammoth, a cheerful sloth, a hyperactive squirrel, and suspiciously sly saber-toothed tiger team up to reunite a human toddler with his nomadic Stone-Age tribe. Rated PG.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 44.3103%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/early-man-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/early-man-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/early-man.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.6897%;\">\n<p>In Nick Park\u2019s stop-motion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4701724\/\">Early Man<\/a> (2018), a tribe of cavepeople have invented the game of football following as asteroid strike. Now many ages have passed \u2013 and Dug and his pet warthog must rally the tribe to defeat Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age soldiers. A riotous conflict that involves mammoths and a football match. Rated PG.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 44.3103%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/quest-for-fire-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/quest-for-fire-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/quest-for-fire-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/quest-for-fire-768x1088.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/quest-for-fire.jpg 1059w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.6897%;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0082484\/\">Quest for Fire<\/a> (1981), set in Paleolithic Europe, is the story of three tribesmen searching for a new fire source, a journey that involves encounters with saber-toothed cats, mammoths, and cannibals. Rated R for nudity, gore, and violence.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 44.3103%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20232\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/clan-of-cave-bear-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/clan-of-cave-bear-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/clan-of-cave-bear-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/clan-of-cave-bear.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.6897%;\">\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0090848\/\">The Clan of the Cave Bear<\/a> (1986), Cro-Magnon meets Neanderthal when a young Cro-Magnon girl is raised by a Neanderthal tribe. Rated R for nudity, gore, and violence.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Projects and Activities<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 45%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stone-age-hands-on-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stone-age-hands-on-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stone-age-hands-on.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55%;\">\n<p>In the Hands-On History series, Charlotte Hurdman\u2019s <em>Stone Age<\/em> (Armadillo, 2013) has background information and instructions for fifteen hands-on projects, among them your own painted cave art, Stone Age hunting tools, a leopard\u2019s tooth necklace, a miniature Stonehenge model, and recipes for a Stone Age meal. For ages 5-9.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 45%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/atlatl-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/atlatl-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/atlatl-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/atlatl-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/atlatl.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55%;\">\n<p>Make an atlatl! An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/what-is-an-atlatl-169989\">atlatl<\/a> is a spearthrower \u2013 invented in the Stone Age (Upper Paleolithic period) and used by hunters to increase their spear-throwing strength and range. Try it! See <a href=\"http:\/\/ilovehistory.utah.gov\/fun_stuff\/how_to_make_an_atlatl.pdf\">Make Your Own Atlatl and Darts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 45%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20245\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/jewelry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55%;\">\n<p>From Imagining History, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagininghistory.co.uk\/post\/stone-age-activities-crafts-for-kids\">Stone Age Crafts for Kids<\/a> has instructions for making Stone Age jewelry, a stone axe, a model stone circle, and a cave painting.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 45%;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55%;\">\n<p>Try these <a href=\"https:\/\/ourfamilycode.com\/stone-age-tools-engineering-challenge\/\">Stone Age STEAM challenges<\/a>. Make a dish to hold paint for a cave painting, weave a bag or basket for carrying crops, used a hammerstone for cracking nuts \u2013 and more.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 45%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/grinding-grain-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/grinding-grain-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/grinding-grain-1024x625.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/grinding-grain-768x469.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/grinding-grain.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55%;\">\n<p>Make <a href=\"https:\/\/researchparent.com\/stone-age-bread-activity\/\">Neolithic bread<\/a>. You\u2019ll need wheat berries and a lot of elbow grease.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 45%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20258\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/paleo-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/paleo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/paleo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/paleo.png 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55%;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Z-Man-Games-ZH007-Paleo\/dp\/B08KPRLNFY\/\">Paleo<\/a> (Z-Man) is a cooperative adventure board game set in the Paleolithic era. Players gather resources, battle dangers, and do their best to survive \u2013 and complete your mammoth cave painting. For 2-4 players ages 10 and up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stone Age: Fiction In Jeremy Tankard\u2019s Me Hungry! 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