Food
Stone Age food varied over time and from region to region but included the foods typical of hunter gatherers: meats, fish, eggs, grasses, tubers, fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts.
Shelter
During the Neolithic period (4000BC and 2500BC), Stone Age houses were rectangular and constructed from timber. None of these houses remain but we can see the foundations. Some houses used wattle (woven wood) and daub (mud and straw) for the walls and had thatched roofs.
Clothes
In later Stone Age times, clothes were made from grasses and plant stems that were woven together to make fabric. Animal hides were also worn, and were especially useful in cold weather, Winter hunter In the cold winter months, Stone Age people wore animal skins, such as this tunic made from red deer skin.
Protection
The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which Stone was widely used to make tools with an edge or a pointed rock.
Transport
Palaeolithic people presumably depended entirely on their own feet, and this remained the normal mode of transport throughout the Stone Age. Domestication of the ox, the donkey, and the camel undoubtedly brought some help, although difficulties in harnessing the horse long delayed its effective use.
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