Savage Stone Age
Horrible Histories (Original) Series
Author: Terry Deary
Illustrator: Martin Brown
Book 16 in the Horrible Histories (Original) series
Pages: 144
Published: 1999
Age: 8+
You probably thought that Stone Age people spent all their time standing stones up on one end and rubbing sticks together to make fires. Not so! The savage Stone Age tribes knew loads of nasty ways to make history exciting! They lived in caves, hunted wild animals, and had mucky table manners bad enough to make you sick. You probably knew that already, but open this book to see…
• What Stone Age people used instead of toilet paper
• Why a hole in the skull is good for headaches
• How to make a Stone Age mummy
Read on for even more icky information about nasty Neanderthals and their curious cave paintings. Explore the truth about Stonehenge, and see what suffering scientists do with Stone Age poo! History has never been so horrible!
About the Horrible Histories (Original) Series
Books in series order
- 1.Awesome Egyptians(1993)
- 2.Terrible Tudors(1993)
- 3.Blitzed Brits(1994)
- 4.Vicious Vikings(1994)
- 5.Vile Victorians(1994)
- 6.Groovy Greeks(1996)
- 7.Measly Middle Ages(1996)
- 8.Slimy Stuarts(1996)
- 9.Angry Aztecs(1997)
- 10.Awful Egyptians(1997)
- 11.Cut Throat Celts(1997)
- 12.Frightful First World War(1998)
- 13.Gorgeous Georgians(1998)
- 14.Terrifying Tudors(1998)
- 15.Rotten Romans(1999)
- 16.Savage Stone Age(1999)
- 17.Woeful Second World War(1999)
- 18.Incredible Incas(2000)
- 19.Smashing Saxons(2000)
- 20.Stormin' Normans(2001)
- 21.Barmy British Empire(2002)
- 22.Ruthless Romans(2003)
- 23.Villianous Victorians(2004)
Reading age: 8+ years
Horrible Histories are history books with the guts left in! These illustrated accounts present the unusual, gory, and unpleasant facts of history with tongue-in-cheek humour guaranteed to appeal to children.