Find out why a child’s bones will grow together more easily than an old person’s bones. See if you can find out what bones are made of. Soak a bone in acid and see what happens to it. Burn a bone and see what happens to it. Why do a child’s bones break less easily than an old person’s?
If there is a spring in your neighborhood, go and see it. Find out where the water comes from.
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THINGS TO THINK ABOUT
If Flaker is lame, how will he be able to get food? What do you think he can do that will be useful to the clan?
Do you think the Cave-men took as good care of the sick, and the lame, and the old people, as we do? What could they do for them?
Why did the men use weapons more than tools? Why did the women use tools more than weapons?
Think of as many tools as you can that the women used.
How Flaker Learned to Make Weapons of Bone