Neolithic (keywords)

Question 0

Porcellanite

Answer 0

A tougher heavier stone

Question 1

Neolithic

Answer 1

Period when people farmed and used batter stone tools

Question 2

Lough Gur

Answer 2

Co. Limerick, give us a very good insight into how the first farmers lived

Question 3

Wattle and daub

Answer 3

The method of building walls

Question 4

Céide fields

Answer 4

They built stone walls to make fences around their fields. We know this because archaeologists found stone walls buried under a bog at the céide fields

Question 5

Megaliths

Answer 5

Mega=large

Lith=stone

Question 6

Quern stone

Answer 6

Would have used to grind grain flour for bread

Question 7

Court cairn

Answer 7

They are the earliest type of megalithic tombs

Question 8

Dolmen

Answer 8

A tomb made of upright stones

Question 9

Passage tombs

Answer 9

The outside looks like a mound of earth with rocks around it

Question 10

Capstone

Answer 10

The stone on top of the dolmen tomb

Question 11

Corbelled roof

Answer 11

Each layer of the wall is placed slightly inside the one below, overlapping until they meet at a single stone in the centre, making a cone effect.