Video 5 What are Neolithic Ritual Monuments?

Question 1

Monument characteristics (3)

Answer 1

1. Imposing
2. Lasting
3. Creating memories over generations

Question 2

When were the earliest monuments made?

Answer 2

4600-2500 BCE

Question 3

Megaliths

Answer 3

Monuments with huge stones

Question 4

2 kinds of monuments

Answer 4

• Made of big stones = Megaliths

- Made of earth

Question 5

Causewayed enclosures

Answer 5

Vast areas surrounded by interrupted ditches

Question 6

What were causewayed enclosures possibly used for?

Answer 6

Meeting place for ritual activities

Question 7

Passage Tombs, Ireland Newgrange

Answer 7

Burial places, often with astronomical alignment (important days calendar for farming activities)

Question 8

Why was Newgrange special?

Answer 8

Bone analyses graves show people buried were very closely related: inbred -> feature elite groups

Question 9

What where tombs usually used for

Answer 9

Burial grounds collectives, or entire groups

Question 10

When were the Hunebeds built?

Answer 10

3400-3200 BCE

Question 11

By what were the Hunebeds covered?

Answer 11

Earthen mount

Question 12

What were Hunebeds

Answer 12

Collective graves

Question 13

Long lines of huge standing stones

Answer 13

Menhirs

Question 14

Two different types of monuments, excluding building material

Answer 14

1. Places that are exclusive and secretive

2. Places in public view

Question 15

Examples of exclusive and secretive monuments

Answer 15

Passage tombs, mounds

Hunebeds, Newgrange

Question 16

Examples of monuments in public view

Answer 16

Causewayed camps, stone circles (Stonehenge), menhirs