Village by the Grain Field

In the picture

1. 1Stone sickle in a harvester’s hand: cutting stalks of ripe grain.
2. 2Quern stone under a kneeling woman’s hands: grinding grain into flour.
3. 3Clay pot on a woven mat: drying in the sunlight.
4. 4Wooden fence around the animal pen: enclosing goats and a cow near the houses.

Examples

• A vegetable patch beside a house
• A farm pen with goats and a cow

Quiz: Village by the Grain Field (Age 11)

1. 1

   According to the card, what new way of getting food did people begin?

   • Moving from place to place without farming or animal pens
   • Growing crops and keeping animals for food
   • Only hunting wild animals and gathering wild plants
2. 2

   After people started farming, what kind of places did they build?

   • Single caves with no storage or pens
   • Temporary camps that they moved every few days
   • Lasting villages with houses, storage pots, and animal pens
3. 3

   How did the people in the village turn grain into flour?

   • They used a stone sickle to cut it
   • They dried it on a woven mat
   • They used a quern stone to grind it

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