Neolithic Flashcards
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Porcellanite
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It’s a tough heavy stone used to make tools
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Neolithic
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Period when people farmed and used better stone tools
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Lough gur
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Where houses bones and jewellery were found
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Wattle and daub
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A method of building walls
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Céide fields
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A field with a prehistoric wall
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Quern stone
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Was used to grind grain into flour
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Megaliths
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Mega-large lith-stone
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Court cairn
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Earliest type of megalithic tomb. It was used for religious ceremony’s
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Dolmen
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Where people buried there dead
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Passage tombs
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Large megalithic tomb. Where people cremated there dead
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Capstone
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A large flat stone that lies on top of a dolmen
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Corbelled roof
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A roof that is an extension on the walls. They overlap each other so there are no leeks.
