Prehistoric health and problems of archaeological evidence

This is a cut and stick activity. Students must decide which of the pieces of information relate to:
• How healthy were prehistoric people?
• How did prehistoric people die?
• Why does archaeological evidence not give us a full understanding of prehistoric people?

Students then answer the questions on the second side of the sheet, They are scaffolded for abilities, with more able students encouraged to think of what sources of information they would be able to use for other periods that cannot be used to learn about prehistory, and to suggest how else people could learn about prehistoric societies - eg. observing modern tribal societies in Australia, New Zealand, South America, Africa etc, or by reading Roman accounts of Iron Age Britain.
This leads well onto class discussion on health through the ages.
This can lead to a piece of extended writing.