Chapter 2 - A Neolithic Farmer

Question 1

What are the key points for a PIN on a Neolithic Farmer?

Answer 1

• Depend on farming more then on hunting and gathering
• More settled life
• Ceide fields suggest they separated the land
• More skilled and better tools made from polished sharp stone
• Stone axes, mattocks, wooden ploughs
• Wheat, barley and quorn
• Animal skin, sheets wool, spinning and weaving
• Dyes made form plants were used to add colour to the wool
• Food cooked in a fireplace in the middle of the hut
• Wattle and Daub houses
• Built houses on higher ground where soil is lighter