Early Christian Ireland

Question 1

Neolithic period 4000BC-2000BC

Answer 1

~learned how to weave and pottery
~lough gur Co. Limerick
~built houses using wattle and daub method
~made better tools like porcellanite-supply in Antrim
~farming began in Mesopotamia 8000 BC

Question 2

Megalithic tombs

Answer 2

• Neolithic believed in afterlife, so they built tombs for the death
• court cairns are the oldest type of tomb, axes and pottery were founded in these tombs
• dolmens are huge stone tables with a cap stone on top. It weighs over 100 tone and holds up to 22 people
• passage tombs eg. Newgrange in co. Meath. This tomb is made of stones, it is 19m x 6m, it took from 2675BC-2485BC to build

Question 3

Iron Age and celts

Answer 3

The celts came in 500BC.

Iron came in 1400BC

Question 4

The Bronze Age 2500BC

Answer 4

• beaker people used metal
• mount Gabriel Co. Cork, huge fires needed to crack the rock called mining, then separated rock and copper called smelting
• gold came from Co. Wicklow
• fulacht fiadh was used to cook meat
• burial customs were cist graves and wedge tombs
• Smiths made tools

Question 5

Mesolithic people 7000BC-3500BC

Answer 5

~also called the middle Stone Age
~mount sandle Co. Derry
~huts made with bendy sticks and mud or animal skin
~all tools made from stone( used Flint because it was a hard rock )
~ hunter gatherers- men hunted for meat and women gathered berries and nuts. They mainly ate bore, duck or deer
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