Questions for schoolchildren




1. Here is a vessel similar to those in the Stone Age village. What is it made of?


Kuva Olavi Lahtela

Stone
Wood
Copper
Burnt clay




2. The picture shows the point of a Stone Age harpoon. It is joined to its haft in the same manner as a spearhead. Harpoons were used for catching seals and large fish. The harpoon point was made of...


Kuva Olavi Lahtela
Wood
Stone
Bone




3. Which of the following objects were used by Stone Age people for eating?

A wooden spoon
A fork
A drinking glass



4. Stone Age people lived on the shoreline. The Stone Age village of Saarijärvi is in a similar location.

Kuva Kalle Laitinen

Here are four reasons why the villages were built on the shore. Which is the wrong one?

Easy access to drinking water.
It was easy to go fishing, and to hunt seal along the sea coast.
It was easier to move about on the water than in the roadless terrain
Farming required settlements by the shore



5. Which of the following types of fishing equipment was not in use in the Stone Age?

Fishing rod
Spinning lure
Net
Weir
Fish trap



6. What is the person in the picture doing?


Cooking
Grinding a stone axes
Making pot from clay


7. Which of the following methods and devices were not used in hunting in the Stone Age?

Traps
Bows and arrows
Spears
Muskets



8. Stone Age houses were not built of

Turf
Brick
Birch bark
Hides



9. How were the dead generally buried in the Comb Ware period?

By cremation
Burial in a shallow pit in the ground
The bodies were left outdoors unburied


10. The bodies of the dead were often coloured with red ochre. Which suggestion do you think explains why this was done?

War-paint
The deceased was to look as frightening as possible
The deceased was to look more alive. Red is the colour of life.



11. At the Stone Age Village, you can see among other exhibits an elk, or moose, skin stretched on a large wooden frame. Next to the frame is a stone artefact. Why do you think the skin is stretched on the frame?

It was used as drum
It was the flag of the village
It was stretched for scraping off the fur.