How they were not so different to us

The Neolithic period provides many challenges – the huge length of time, the limitations of evidence, the many different aspects.  This article suggests how a teaching programme might  be structured to explore the period.  It promotes the idea that these people, so distant in time, were much as we are today, seeking shelter and food for their families. To do this they began to shape their environment and so left evidence for us to find out about their lives...