Stone Age
For most of the Stone Age, humans lived as hunter-gatherers. This means that instead of growing their food, they went out and found it. They hunted and fished for food, especially during the Ice Age.
Later, they learned to gather edible plants, collect eggs from birds’ nests, and, for a sweet treat, they took honey from wild bee hives. What hunter-gatherers ate depended on what they could find each season, eating fruit and berries when they ripened and eating meat from animals when they were most plentiful. They travelled from place to place in search of the best hunting grounds, living in temporary shelters . Humans who lived by the sea, rivers, or lakes used barbed spears to catch fish and, later, traps to catch eels, crabs, and lobsters.
