Aincent Ireland

Question 1

1st settlers - Mesolithic

Answer 1

Stone tools + weapons
Hunter gatherers + wore animal skins
Nomadic + lived in basket shaped houses made of saplings
Cremated their dead - grave goods

Question 2

First farmers - neolithic

Answer 2

Farming, bread making, tomb building, pottery making
Land was ploughed with stone mattocks + ploughs. Grew wheat + barley, kept domesticated pigs. Still hunter gatherers
Settled wattle + daub houses, thatched roofs
Buried their dead in megaliths

Question 3

Megaliths

Answer 3

Passage graves: huge mounds built over a central passage+ chambers
Court Cairn: open space at the front + chamber covered with rocks for the dead behind
Portal dolmen: 2/more standing stones with a huge capstone ontop

Question 4

Bronze age

Answer 4

Tool: sickles, swords, spears
Food: wheat + barley, kept animals + hunted, querns grinded corn + fulacht fiadh cooked meat
Houses: big, circular, enclosed behind wooden fences/embankments/ditches
Burial: wedge tomb - grave goods

Question 5

Iron age

Answer 5

Crannógs - man made islands with tree trunks driven into lake bed + platform built ontop
Ring forts - circular enclosures surrounded by deep earth + fence
La Tène style art
Cist graves - grave goods + ogham headstone

Question 6

Celtic Ireland - Aos dána

Answer 6

Judges
Druids
Filí
Doctors/healers
Musicians/bards
Crafts people