Bronze Age Flashcards
Bronze Age
a period in the history of humankind, following the Stone Age and preceding the Iron Age, during which bronze weapons and implements were used.
Bronze
a metallic brownish color.
Smith
a worker in metal.
Mining
the laying of explosive mines.
Smelting
to fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained.
Casting
Then they poured the liquid metal into the moulds and left it to set.
Lunula
something shaped like a narrow crescent, as the small, pale area at the base of the fingernail.
Torc
A necklace made out of gold.
fulacht fiadh
Bronze Age BBQ.
Wedge tomb
a Neolithic chamber tomb found in the British Isles, having a trapezoidal or D-shaped cairn and a long, narrow chamber opening into it from the wider, higher side.
Cist grave
Bronze Age people buried their dead in.
Stone circle
These are all upright stones arranged in circles or rows.