my day at the meseum

today were supposed to go to the meseum of man but when were went it wasnt free today so we couldnt of in co instead we went to

Life as an egyptian - toys

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  what look to us like dolls or puppets were often used for religious purposes, such as offering to the gods,or for magic , to cast spell.

• these figures were meant to work as servants for the dead person in the afterlife.



• most children's toys were easily broken or destroyed over time by damp or fire, so few have survived, some have been found intact in the tombs of young children.



• the family members made most of the toys. rich families might have toys made by skilled craftsmen.
  

Toys for babies

• babies would be given clappers or rattles made of dried gourds,wood,clay or bones. some had metal bells or loose pebbles inside.




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  dolls were made out of cloth and wax. they often had movable arms and legs and different sets of clothes for dressing up.



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  some dolls were been found with holes drilled into their scalp to take hair made from fibres of flax.




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  as for older children play with whipping tops. these were usually made of wood, but some of clay and covered by 'faience'.

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  toys are the same but there made different and the materials or different now.

old stone age vs. new stone age

About 2.5 millionB.C - 8500B.C in old stone age people used stone for knives, axes, spear points they also used bones for needles and fish hooks.



The new stone age people set up village,small communite and leaned how to work with metals like weapons,tools, jewelry.also invention of the wheels,calendar,also went to war(over land),religions,government.