The Bronze Age Flashcards
How did they know horses came to Ireland
The horses bones
What didn’t stay the same in Ireland in the Bronze age.
Horses came to Ireland and the knew metal bronze was discovered.
What did the Bronze Age people eat
They ate the same as Neolithic people but different cooking methods
How did the Bronze Age people cook?
They had a pith near the river put red hot rocks from a fire in the poth waited for a while and put the meat in the pit to cook this was called the fulacth fia
What was the cooker called in the Bronze Age?
The fulacht fiadh which meant deer roast
What happened to big families?
They were separated
What happened to the way houses were made?
They had a thatched roof and was made of wattle and daub which were huts which had a fence surrounding it.
What were cist graves
The cist grave was where you put ashes of a cremated person.
What were cist graves?
It was a pit surrounded by stones where cremated bodies and dead bodies were put in a crouched position, in theor was often pots and personal artefacts
What were the two metals that you needed to make bronze?
Tin and copper
How was copper mined?
They nuild a fire near the rocks, when the rocks got they poured cold water on it, they dug for rocks that contianed copper, using a stone hammer was removed from the rocks, the rocks containing copper was put in a fire to turn the copper into a liquid and separate it from the rock, the liquid copper was then mixed with bronze
Where did people get tin?
It was imported from cornwall in england
What is mount gabriel?
A copper mine
What were smiths?
People who made metal objects
How did the smith make tools?
By carving the out the shapes of tools like axe heads, knives into flat stones they put the liquid metal in the moulds and it was a tool
