Stone Age Flashcards
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Porcellanite
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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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archaeologists found traces of Neolithic people
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Wattle and daub
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Method of building walls wattle weaves sticks, daub manure and muck to plaster it
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Céide fields
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Example of Neolithic people building walls around their fields
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Quern stone
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Used to grind grain to flour
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Megalithic
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Mega:big lith : stone large stone
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Court cairn
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Earliest type of burial ground made of upright stones covered in soil and small rocks
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Dolmens
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Two or three upright stones
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Passage tombs
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Example new grange the largest tombs long passage leading two a chamber
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Corbelled roof
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Layers of rocks to form a cone shape at the roof
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Capstone
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Large put on top of dolmens
