How did Hunter- gatherers live?

In the Stone- age, people couldn't just pop to the supermarket to buy their food; they had to either hunt it or gather it, hence the name- 'hunter- gatherers'.

The Stone age people's diet was made up of meat and berries and nuts they found. Farming was invented during the prehistoric era but not until later. People had to eat anything they caught or found otherwise they would starve. During the Ice-age, there were animals like reminders, mammoths and even wooly- rhinos! When the warmer periods, Britain was as hot as Africa and there would be creatures such as hyenas, elephants and hippos migrating to Europe but when Britain cooled down, there was the species that we are familiar with today such as birds, fish and shell fish. They would eat nuts such as hazelnuts and fruit such as bilberries (like large blueberries) and also roots that they found underground.

The Hunter- gatherers used simple hand- crafted tools like hammers made from antler of bone, blades made from sharp flint and spears made by sharping a stick to a point. These were used for hunting, skinning animals to use their furs for clothing and some other things.

We know a lot about the Stone- age from cave art. The would use pigment to paint a story on a cave. They also carved images on bones and tools. We have a lot of tools from the prehistoric times. It is quite common to find a Stone- age arrow head or blade on a beach or in an abandoned quarry. My mum found a blade on a beach on the Isle of Wight a few years back.