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Prehistory in Spain

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  • People in this age lived as nomads. They moved from one place to another looking for food. Some people lived in caves.
    Palaeolithic Age
  • Name two objects neolithic people made with furnaces.
    Ex: tools, weapons, knives, jewellery
  • What tool is used for weaving cloth?
    a loom
  • What two metals are mixed to make bronze?
    copper and tin
  • Monuments built during the Metal Age using large stones were called _________.
    megaliths
  • What is this neolithic farm tool called?
    a sickle
  • Neolithic people melted metal in ______________ to make different object.
    furnaces
  • People in this age learned to use metal. They began to trade goods with other villages.
    Metal Ages
  • What is the process of forming objects with clay?
    pottery
  • Name three metals neolithic people found in mines.
    copper, tin, and iron
  • About when did the Metal Age begin?
    about 7,000 years ago
  • Many upright stones that support a large, flat, horizontal stone. They were burial monuments.
    dolmens
  • Large, upright, standing stones used for religious purposes
    menhirs
  • Name two Palaeolithic tools.
    spearheads, axes, scrapers, harpoons, knives, needles, etc.
  • What are the three periods of prehistory we have learned about?
    Palaeolithic, Neolithic, and Metal Ages
  • Circles of large standing stones that prehistoric people used as sanctuaries.
    cromlechs
  • What name did archealogists give to the remains they found in Atapuerca (Burgos) in 2007?
    the Child of Gran Dolina
  • People in this age learned to grow food and keep animals. They stopped being nomads and started to build villages.
    Neolithic Age
  • What is this neolithic tool called?
    a hand mill
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