Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each item: Paleolithic strategy or Mesolithic strategy?
Groups: Paleolithic · Mesolithic
- Microliths hafted in rows on a wooden shaft
- Broad-spectrum diet of fish, nuts, birds, and deer
- Specializing on migratory reindeer and horse
- Fish traps, nets, and dugout canoes
- Following large herds across open country
Hints
- One strategy follows herds across open ground.
- The other diversifies within a forested landscape.
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Paleolithic: Following large herds across open country, Specializing on migratory reindeer and horse
Mesolithic: Broad-spectrum diet of fish, nuts, birds, and deer, Microliths hafted in rows on a wooden shaft, Fish traps, nets, and dugout canoes
Why
One landscape disappeared and took a way of life with it. The Mesolithic is what people did when the herds stopped coming and the trees closed in.
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