Paleolithic Vs Neolithic Research Paper

What’s the difference between the Paleolithic and Neolithic time you might ask. Well first we have to establish what they were. The stone age was when people were just using stones as tools. The Paleolithic was known as the old stone age and the Neolithic as the new stone age. The old stone age was when they were discovering how to use stones which was why it was called the beginning or old stone age era. The new stone age was the end of the stone age. It was when they had progressed, had more tools and knew how to use them better. A way to distinguish these two2 times is that in the Neolithic era everything was new and much more exciting. N in new for the N in Neolithic

The first thing we should discuss is food. How man survived. In the paleolithic man were hunters and gatherers. In the Neolithic they were farmers. In the paleolithic they gathered roots, berries, leaves, seeds, crowberry, wild cabbage and scurvy grass. The number one thing they hunted was …show more content…
Well in the paleolithic era most people were nomads, meaning they had no designated home and traveled around. In modern day time this would be a gypsy. Some people even traveled in groups of 20 or 30 people known as nomadic herds. The few people that did settle did this in caves or tents. In the Neolithic era people finally began to settle. They did this with civilizations and villages.

Back in the stone age what they didn't have was thousands of brands, instead they had animal fur. In the paleolithic they wore mammoth fur. By the time the Neolithic era happened mammoths were extinct so they wore sheepskin or wool.
There were many differences between the Paleolithic and Neolithic even though they were both the stone age. Did you know that writing wasn't created until the Neolithic age? They spoke in the Paleolithic era but they couldn’t write. The language they spoke is a dead language