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==3.12 Explain how objects or artifacts of everyday life in the past tell us how ordinary people lived and how everyday life has changed. Draw on the services of the local historical society and local museums as needed.==

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=The Development of Cooking Tools = Today, there are cooking devices for basically everything. However, in the past, people had to cook using only their surroundings. As a result, the earliest cooking tools consisted of wood and stone. Later on, they became more developed.

Early Cooking For more information on early cooking tools, click here.
 * Most common form of cooking was using fire pits with skewers
 * Used flat stones and grinders
 * Metal was expensive, so most commoners used silverware and other tools made of wood
 * Used salt to preserve food

Native American For more information, click here
 * Used the hides of animals to make boiling sacks, where they could boil food
 * Celts (similar to arrowheads) were used to pound food
 * Grinding tools to grind roots and plants
 * Had clay cooking pots
 * Knives made from wood

Early American For more information, click here.
 * Created clay cooking pots similar to the Native Americans
 * Used grinding stones
 * Bronze and iron tools became more popular later on as they became less expensive
 * Preserving kettles were created in the early 18th century
 * Early pressure cookers were created by the 1890s



Click here for the game "Hunt the Ancestor" from BBC on archeology

Click here to watch a youtube video explaining what archeology is to children

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