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Mesolithic Period - 4000BC (Food (Bread,Porridge,Milk, Hunted deer, Fished…
Mesolithic Period - 4000BC
Facts
First farmers
Stone age
dugout/canoe/boat
Not normadic
settled at Lough Gur + Ceide fields
Houses
Rectangular
Wattle walls
Thatched roof
No chiminey
Smoke left from hole in roof
Tombs
Called megaliths
3 types:
Court Cains
Portal Dolmens
Passage Tombs
Portal Dolmens
Three upright stones
supported by a dolmen
Bodies burned
put in pots in chamber
Court Cains
Semi circular
Entrance leading to passage and burial chamber
Used for religious ceremonies and cremations
Ashes placed in pots at burial chamber with corbelled roof
Food
Bread,Porridge,Milk
Hunted deer
Fished
gathered nuts and berries
Cooked on spit
Saddle stone to grind corn
Work
Farmers (wheat and barley)
Kept cattle (goat and sheep)
Made tools from stone
stone = Porcelanite
sharper than flint
Hunted
Built tombs
Made clothes from wool and animal skin
Tools + weapons
Polished porcelanite
Axes
Knives
Spears
Arrows
Scramers
Wooden plough