ANCIENT IRELAND

ANCIENT IRELAND

1. the middle stone age

   • 8000 BC
     • mesolithic or middle stone age
       • found signs of mesolithic settlement.
         • Mount Sandal.
         • near the River Bann
           • at Coleraine in Northen Ireland.
   • hunter gathers
     • berries , hazelnuts
     • deer, wild pigs other animals.
       • fish and gathered shelfish
   • was called the stone age because people used weapons and tools made from stone

2. the new stone age

   • 4000 bc
     • Neolithic or new stone age.
       • first farmers.
   • stone axes
     • megalithic tombs
       • pottery
         • wheat and barly
           • cattle , sheep , pigs
           • stronger houses