Pre Christian Ireland - New Stone Age - Introduction

Question 1

What does Neolithic mean?

Answer 1

New stone

Question 2

What does megalithic mean?

Answer 2

Big stone

Question 3

What type of people came before the Neolithic period?

Answer 3

Nomadic Hunter gatherers

Question 4

What were hunter gatherers?

Answer 4

Hunted fish, boar for food

Gathered berries

Question 5

What does nomadic mean?

Answer 5

Moved from place to place

Question 6

What time period is the Neolithic period?

Answer 6

3800-2500 bc

Question 7

What is a property of Neolithic art?

Answer 7

Made using stone
Symbolic abstract decoration - unrecognizable decoration
Not realism

Question 8

What are the 3 types of megalithic tombs?

Answer 8

Dolmen
Courtcairn
Passage tomb

Question 9

What kind of people came during the Neolithic period?

Answer 9

They set up communities and were the first farmers.
They no longer moved from place to place to find food.
They harvested crops and bred animals.

Question 10

When did the first human settlers come to Ireland?

Answer 10

7000 bc