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PREHISTORY (Life in the Palaeothic period (Daily life of the hunter…
PREHISTORY
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Life in the Copper, Bronze and Iron Ages
These ages began around 4500 with the discovery of metallurgy or metalworking and continued till 1000 BC.
During this period, around 3250 BC some people discovered writing
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New techniques, intruments and inventions
First metal was worked in a cold state. Then metal was heated in a fire (a forge). Finally a foundry was used, which heated the metals untill they became liquid. Then the liquid waspoured into moulds and to finish items were polished when they had cooled
Metalworking provided a great variety of more durable agricultural tools, weapons and domestic utensils
The main inventions were the wheel (very important for the cart transport and the pottery), the plough and the sail
Social transformations
The population continued to increase, so settelments grew and became small cities and some of these constructed walls for defensive reasons
Society became more complex and new roles emerged: metalworkers, traders, cartwrights, sea merchants
Art in the Copper, Bronze and Iron Ages
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These mouments had different forms:
- Menhirs are large stones placed vertically in the ground
- Stone row are lines of menhirs
- Cromlechs are cicles formed by some menhirs
- Dolmens are chambers formed of large vertical stones with a stone roof
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