1.1. In Ireland, the use of copper was somewhere around 2600 BC until 2400 BC, it then continued until somewhere 2200/2100 BC when it was alloyed to create bronze with tin. The Copper Age was distinguish came from the preceding late neolithic with mining copper by the people back then and the use of copper and gold was mostly use for people to make weapons, armors, hammer and other tools and item that they used to support them living.
2. What Is a Prehistoric Period?
2.1. A Prehistoric Period is a period that contains of the living in the old human culture when they only have less materials and surviving in a more difficult way than how we live nowadays as it is a before written records.
3. How Did The Irish Human Survived?
3.1. The Irish people survive due to their intelligent quotients and their creativity against their site and discovering things to know the world much better.
4. The Knowth Macehead
4.1. This object was very rare to find and difficult because the first one every found in Ireland was deep underground. It was used in around 3300 BC until 2800 BC.
5. The Irish Culture
5.1. Their human culture is being creative and having ideas by their surroundings. The culture includes custom and tradition, music, art, language, literature, folklore, cuisine and sport. For most of the history of it, Ireland have been a gaelic.
6. The Iron Age
6.1. The Iron Age in Ireland was started at 500 BC until 400 AD As they continue until the Christian Era. As they call it the Terminology, Medieval was used there for distinguishing the prehistoric period at Ireland in 1500 C. As in Irish writing, as the archeologist investigate when at the Christian Era.
7. Mesolithic Cemetery (Ireland's old burials)
7.1. As a bend of river shannon (or ireland's largest watercourse), a small band of Ireland hunters gathering in about 9,500 years ago, to bury their own in a pile of sand. As in there, a large stone axe was found with a lot of flint that are counted, it has evidence for burning, as radiocarbon anaysis says that it was from the cremation an early mesolithic date o 7530 BC until 7520 BC.
8. Mount Sandel (a mesolithic campsite)
8.1. In about 9000 years ago (or about 8000 - 7000 BC), people combines the materials and create a house to live there, and it was actually the first ever house ever made by the Irish and it was made by a small band of mesolithic hunters.
9. Stone Age (Paleolithic)
9.1. Ireland in the Paleolithic era was still largely covered by glaciers, and even as the glaciers receded, it was hard to access. For a long time, scientists believed that no people had ever lived on the island in Paleolithic times.
9.2. However, a bone from an ancient brown bear discovered from the scientist at the early 20th century was recently re-analyzed, with the results showing clear signs that the bone had been butchered by stone tools.
9.3. The bone dated to about 10,500 BCE, suggesting that there were, in fact, people in Ireland during the Paleolithic era, although who they were and how they got there is still a mystery.
10. Stone Age (Mesolithic)
10.1. This was an era of transition, as the glaciers receded and the Earth warmed a little, but most people were still nomadic.
10.2. Ireland's Mesolithic era began around 8,000 BCE with the oldest habitation site on the island found at Mount Sandel in County Derry. The site contains evidence of ancient nomadic hunter-gatherers who lived in simple wood-like structures.
10.3. Archeologists thinks that Mesolithic Irish cultures first arrived from Britain, then went inland by following rivers from the coast. For a few thousand years, Mesolithic people roamed the island, making use of natural resources they came across.
10.4. They gathered fruits and nuts, hunted birds and wild boars, and spent a lot of time fishing and harvesting marine resources, which were abundant. Mesolithic technologies consisted largely of small stone blades called microliths, which were set into wood or bone to make arrows and harpoons.
11. Stone Age (Neolithic
11.1. This transition was a big one because it indicated that farming had arrived on the island. Neolithic cultures still used stone tools, but were more stationary, living in permanent structures and farming rather than gathering food.
