2. Brehistory Flashcards
Before Christ Even!
Date the Paleolithic
(Old Strone Age)
Paleolithic
700,000-9,000 BC
Date the Mesolithic
(Middle Stone Age)
Mesolithic
9,000-4,000 BC
Date the Neolithic (New Stone Age)
Neolithic
4200-2000 BC
Date the Bell Beaker Folk
(Bronze Age)
Bell Beaker Folk (Bronze Age)
2500-700 BC
In which Stone Age (-lithic) are the British Isles & the continent a single land mass?
PALEOLITHIC (Old Stone Age)
The end of the last ice age
10,000 BC
(Paleolithic -old stone age)
Tools of people in the Paleolithic:
They were hunter gatherers:
flint tools, handaxes, microliths
When did the population of the British Isles become permanent?
With the warming of the climate (Mesolithic -middle stone age)
Important Mesolithic sites (name 3):
Robin hood cave horse,
Star Carr,,
Cheddar Man
What was the Robin Hood Cave Horse?
A horse rib bone inscribed with a horse (oldest portable piece of art in Britain) -10,500 BC
Neolithic ritual landscapes:
-Wessec (Wiltshire)
-Orkney
-Boyne Valley, Ireland
Neolithic structures (name 7)
Tracks, settlements, megalithic tombs, henges, stone circles, alignments, menhirs
Tracks of Neolithic Britain:
The Sweet Track,
The Ridgeway
Neolithic settlements:
-Knap of Howar, Orkney (oldest preserved stone house)
-Skara Brae, Orkney (most complete village)
Name 3 henges (stonecircles?):
-Stonehenge (best preserved)
-Avebury, Wiltshire (largest)
-Ring of Brodgar, Orkney
