So how exactly did people survive in the Mesolithic (the name given to the period 8,000-4,000 BC)? That’s we set out to discover at this month’s meeting.

We did a quiz to find out what birds and mammals were hunted all that time ago, then thought a bit more about the equipment Mesolithic hunters would need to catch them.

Sometimes the best way to understand something is to experiment, so we made ourselves spears and fishing rods and tried them out on some unsuspecting fish!
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