Mesolithic Ireland

What does Mesolithic mean?

• New Stone Age

• Middle Stone Age

• Big Rock

• Old Stone Age

What site in Ireland is the most important source of information about Mesolithic Ireland?

• Poulnabrone Dolmen

• Newgrange

• Céide Fields

• Mount Sandel

Tools and weapons during this time were made from...

• bronze

• iron

• stone

• copper

The first settlers in Ireland were known as ...

• the first farmers

• hunter-gatherers

• middle stone age people

• the first sailors

Mesolithic people lived in...

• circular huts

• rectangular huts

• square huts

• triangular huts

The frame of these huts were made from...

• saplings

• old wood

• bones from animals

• wattle and daub

The first settlers usually settled...

• inland in the heart of the forest

• on the coast or on banks of rivers

• big cities

• on the top of mountains

The first settlers were nomadic, which means...

• they farmed the land

• they settled inland, away from the sea

• they moved from place to place

• they stay in the one location