Ancient Ireland Flashcards
Which of these periods is not part of the Stone Age? Paleolithic Mesolithic Neolithic Bronze
Bronze
What word describes a dwelling on a man-made island?
A crannog
What is a fulacht fiadh?
A pit used to cook food in water heated by hot stones.
Why was the Stone Age so called?
People made most of their tools and weapons from stones.
In what period of the Stone Age did the first farmers arrive in Ireland?
The Neolithic (New) Stone Age around 4000 BC
True or False: There is no evidence that people inhabited Ireland during the Paleolithic (Old) Stone Age, around 12,000 BC.
True: The first signs of humans in Ireland date from the Mesolithic Period, around 7000 BC.
In Ancient Ireland, what was a druid?
Druids were poets, doctors and spiritual leaders.
Neolithic (New) Stone Age people built homes of wattle and daub. What is wattle and daub?
Wattle is a woven lattice of wooden strips. Daub is a mixture of wet soil, sand, straw and animal dung spread over the wattle.
What did early hunter-gatherers eat?
Nuts and berries
Fish
Wild pig, deer and other meats
What is a souterrain?
An underground passage for storing food and other valuables.
What is the name and location of Ireland’s best known passage grave?
Newgrange, Co.Meath
Which of the following is not a type of Stone Age burial tomb? A torc A Dolmen A Court Cairn A Passage Grave
A torc
What is a quern or quern-stone used for?
A quern is a type of millstone used for grinding corn. Sometimes it was worked by one person, sometimes by two, who pushed the handles from one to the other.
List 3 things introduced by the first farmers of the Neolithic (New) Stone Age?
wattle and daub houses pottery wheat and barley pigs, sheep and cattle dolmens court cairns passage graves
Stone Age burial sites held multiple bodies. List 3 types of individual burial graves introduced by Bronze Age people.
Cist graves
Wedge tombs
Standing Stones
