Bronze Age-chapter 2

Question 0

What tool was used very often in the Bronze Age

Answer 0

Sickle for cutting crops or grass

Question 1

What were the 2 metals that they used in the Bronze Age

Answer 1

Tin and copper

Question 2

Describe cist grave

Answer 2

Is a shallow pit, lined with stone slabs and covered by a large flat stone.
The bodies were often buried in a crouched position

Question 3

Describe wedge tomb

Answer 3

A tomb that is narrow at the back and higher and wider at the front

Question 4

Describe stone circle

Answer 4

Were large upright placed in the ground probably used as a calendar

Question 5

What were the 2 methods on which Bronze Age people cooked their food

Answer 5

1. Bronze cauldrons over fire

2. fulacht fiadh

Question 6

What are hunter-gathers

Answer 6

Early Irish settlers that did not know the skills of farming they survived by gathering berries and nuts and hunting animals

Question 7

What is a quern

Answer 7

A stone that was used to grind grain

Question 8

What is wattle and daub

Answer 8

Interwoven sticks that are plastered with straw and mud

Question 9

Describe Fulacht fiadh

Answer 9

A water-filled trough used for cooking in Bronze Age