Unit 7 - Lesson 5. The Palaeolithic period: society, rituals and beliefs

This has been a busy day and I didn't have time to upload new contents until now. On Tuesday I didn't publish any content because you had homework to do. Thank you for your cards about Palaeolithic tools. You will see them soon in this blog (without your names, of course).

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This is our last lesson about the Palaeolithic period. After Easter holidays we'll continue studying the Neolithic.

In this lesson we are going to study pages 110-111 of your book.

First of all, some vocabulary that you may find here or in the book:

• A burial: when people die, you bury them: you dig a hole (this is called a grave) and you put the corpse (the dead person's body) inside. Then you cover it with earth, or with a stone.
• A healer: To heal a person is to make them recover from an illness. In a primitive society there are no doctors to heal people: healers tried to do their job using magic rituals.
• A shaman: a person that practises magic in primitive societies. ("Chamán")

  

  This person has religious beliefs

• A belief: something that you believe.
• Veneration: deep respect for somebody.
• An idol: an object that represents something or somebody that is venerated or adored as a god.
• A spear: a weapon that consists of a long stick and a sharp point (in the Paleolithic period this part was made of stone). ("Lanza" o "azagaya")
• A spear thrower: a tool for throwing a spear at long distances. ("Propulsor")

This is how the spear thrower was used:

This is the presentation of this lesson's contents:


In this video you can see the Paleolithic technique for making hand stencils:


Here I leave you a link to extra interactive material about the Palaeolithic. Click the "talking book" buttons and listen to the audio. WARNING: in the activities, you can't use the buttons that say "Guardar respuesta", because we can't register for that.
The Paleolithic period

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For homework, you are going to send to my e-mail your answers to exercises 1, 5 and 6 of pages 110 and 111 of the book. You have time until 14th April, but it's better if you do it soon, and then you've got the rest of the holidays free. Let me know if there is any difficulty.

Just in case you don't understand exercise 1, this is the same question in other words:
What differences do you think there were between the work of men and the work of women in the Palaeolithic? Did men and women do the same activities?