Ancient Ireland Flashcards
When did the first settlers arrive in Mesolithic Ireland?
8,000-3,500BC
List several tools and weapons used during the Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic)
Made from stone, wood and bone
-Needle made from antler
-Flint scraper
-Axe
-Arrowhead with flint
-Arrowhead
Describe the food and how it was cooked in the Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic)
-Hunter-gatherers: got food by hunting, fishing and gathering fruit, nuts and berries
-Food was cooked over a fire on a spit
How did people clothe themselves in Mesolithic Ireland?
Animal skins sewn together by bone needles
Explain housing in Mesolithic Ireland
-Mesolithic people were nomadic
-Temporary dwellings like:
-Tents
-Temporary basket like houses
What does nomadic mean?
Regularly moving from place to placeq
Describe burials during Mesolithic Ireland
-Cremation
-Buried with grave goods
What are grave goods?
axes and other valuable items buried with dead people
When was Neolithic Ireland?
4,00 to 3,500 BC
What skills were brought during Neolithic Ireland and by who?
-Farming
-Bread-making
-Tomb-building
-Pottery-making
by new settlers
Name 2 major Neolithic sites in Ireland
-The Céide Fields in Co. Mayo
-Lough Gur in Co. Limerick
-Boyne Valley in Co. Meath
What tools and weapons were used during Neolithic Ireland?
-Stone mattocks and ploughs to plough land
-Saddle stone to grind wheat
-Pots to store foos, tools, ashes of dead
Describe food in Neolithic Ireland
-Farmers grew crops like wheat and barley and domesticated animals like sheep and pigs
-Still hunted and gathered, but no longer main source of food
-Made bread by grinding wheat into flour on a saddle stone
Describe houses in Neolithic Ireland
-Usually stayed in one place due to farming
-Wattle and daub walls
-Roof was thatched with straw or rushes
What was wattle and daub?
Wooden sticks woven together like a basket (wattle) and covered with a mixture of mud, dung, sand and straw (daub)
