Listen to these words.
Ice Age
Stone Age
evolution
scripts
Bronze Age
Iron Age
pre-literacy
primitive
linguist
charred
metalwork
smelt
neighbouring
crucial
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Very important.
crucial
Next to each other.
neighbouring
To get metal from a rock by heating it to a high temperature.
smelt
The activity of using metal to make objects.
metalwork
Burned to the point of turning black.
charred
Someone who studies different languages.
linguist
Simple, not advanced.
primitive
The time before people had the ability to read and write.
pre-literacy
An early time in human history when people used tools and weapons made of iron (greyish metal).
Iron Age
An early time in human history when people used tools and weapons made of bronze (brown metal) before iron was discovered.
Bronze Age
Texts or pieces of writing.
scripts
The way things change and develop over time.
evolution
An early time in human history when people only used tools and weapons made of stone.
Stone Age
A time in the past when the temperature was very low and ice covered large parts of the Earth.
Ice Age
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