Neolithic Flashcards

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Porcellainite

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A tougher and heavier stone than Flint

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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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Is where the first Neolithic people lived

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Wattle and daub

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A method of building houses the daub was straw and earth that was plastered into the walls to cover the cracks.wattle is the stakes at the front of the house and the branches were woven through them

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Céide fields

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We’re the fields archeologists found remains of the stone walls from the Neolithic period

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Quaren stone

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A Quaren stone would have been used to grind grain into bread

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Megaliths

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A large stone

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Court cairn

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A tomb with a open area at the front and the inside where there was big stones covered with earth

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Dolmen

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Two Or three big stones placed on upright and a capstone on top

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Passage tomb

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It looks a lot like a circular hill or a mound of earth inside there. Was also a long passage leading to a chamber

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Capstone

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A large flat stone that was placed on top of a dolmen

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Cobbled roof

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Is an extension of the walls each layer of the wall is placed slightly inside the one below

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