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The Bronze Age
How was Bronze first discovered?
About 2500BC people in the Middle East discovered how to use metal.The first metal they used was Copper.But copper was too soft.Then they realised that if you added tin to copper it made a harder metal called ____ Bronze
Bronze tools and weapons are sharper than stone tools.Gradually the use of bronze spread across Europe.This led archaeologists to say the Stone Age ended and the Bronze Age began.
Why was bronze better than Stone?It was harder wearing
It could be shaped more easily.
It had a sharper edge.
The Bronze Age comes to IrelandCopper & bronze appear in Ire around 2000BC.There is plenty of copper. Archaeologists have found copper mines in a number of places.For example, Mount Gabriel, Co Cork and near Kilarney, Co Kerry
• Archaeologists have found no Tin mines in Ireland.
So how did they make Bronze?
• Archaeologists believed it was imported to Ireland from the tin mines in Cornwall, in England.
This would mean bronze age people traded.
Copper & Tin are minerals
found in rocks in the form of oreHow do you get the ore from the
rocks to make bronze objects?
Smelting
Beaker FolkAbout 2000BC a new type of pot appeared in archaeologicalsites around Europe.
These pots are shaped like a drinking glass
Archaeologists call them ‘beakers’ and they called the people who made them ‘Beaker Folk’
In sites where the Beaker Folk appear, there are usually copper and bronze tools too.
Archaeologists think the Beaker Folk brought the Bronze Age to Ireland.
Complete the table of information on life in the
Bronze Age.Houses
Food & Family
Work
Tools & Weapons
Arts & crafts
Fulachta Fiadh
Drombeg
Burial CustomsHow did Bronze Age people bury their
dead?
Cist Graves
Wedge Tomb
Glantane East Wedge Tomb, County Cork, Ireland
Stone Circle Drombeg, Co Cork
Thank you
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