ancient ireland neolithic ireland learning objective - to understand neolithic burial customs
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ANCIENT IRELANDNEOLITHIC IRELAND
LEARNING OBJECTIVE - TO UNDERSTAND NEOLITHIC BURIAL CUSTOMS
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. To understand the Burial customs of the Neolithic Period
2. To understand key terms relating to the burial customs
3. To be able to recognise the type of burial custom via images
Key Terms:
Court
Passage
Cremated
Burial Chamber
Cairn
Portal Dolmen
Corbelled roofLEARNING OBJECTIVE - TO UNDERSTAND NEOLITHIC BURIAL CUSTOMS
The Neolithic built tombs called megaliths to honour their dead.There were three main type of tombs:
1. Court cairns
2. Portal dolmens
3. Passage tombs
Burial Customs
LEARNING OBJECTIVE - TO UNDERSTAND NEOLITHIC BURIAL CUSTOMS
Almost 400 Court Cairns were built (mainly in the North of Ireland)
Shape: Semi-circular court (open space) in front, with an entrance leading into a burial chamber.
Cairns: small mound of smaller stones that covered the burial chamber
The Court was used for religious ceremonies and cremation LEARNING OBJECTIVE - TO UNDERSTAND NEOLITHIC BURIAL CUSTOMS
Court Cairns
LEARNING OBJECTIVE - TO UNDERSTAND NEOLITHIC BURIAL CUSTOMS
200 found! Shape: Three large upright stones supported a very large Dolmen
(Capstone) – up to 40 tonnes in weight!!- Portal: Two large upright stones acted as supports for the Dolmen- Dolmen: the capstone that was laid on the top of the Portals.
- The tombs were partly covered by smaller stones, leaving the entrance open. Bodies were cremated and placed into pots inside the chamber
LEARNING OBJECTIVE - TO UNDERSTAND NEOLITHIC BURIAL CUSTOMS
Portal Dolmens
LEARNING OBJECTIVE - TO UNDERSTAND NEOLITHIC BURIAL CUSTOMS
Over 300 found!! Get their name from the long passage leading from the
entrance to a burial chamber inside.
Passage Tombs
LEARNING OBJECTIVE - TO UNDERSTAND NEOLITHIC BURIAL CUSTOMS
Newgrange
LEARNING OBJECTIVE - TO UNDERSTAND NEOLITHIC BURIAL CUSTOMS
Newgrange has a circular mound that covers a long passage leading to a cross-shaped burial chamber.
Shape: the passage has upright stones along both sides, with large flat stones placed on the top to from a roof.
The roof of the chamber is corbelled – this was built by placing flat stones one on top of the other, with the one on top placed slightly in front of the other.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE - TO UNDERSTAND NEOLITHIC BURIAL CUSTOMS
Winter Solstice
LEARNING OBJECTIVE - TO UNDERSTAND NEOLITHIC BURIAL CUSTOMS
LEARNING OBJECTIVE - TO UNDERSTAND NEOLITHIC BURIAL CUSTOMS
The most famous feature of Newgrange is the small opening or ‘roof box’ situated above the passage entrance.
On the 21st of December each year, the rising sun sends its light through the roof-box and along the passage until the rays of light hit the back wall of the chamber
Marked the start of the New Year-- a sign of nature’s rebirth and promising renewed life to crops, animals and humans.
NEOLITHIC ARTWORK
At the entrance to the tomb, there is a large stone which is an example of Neolithic artwork.
They used spirals, circles and triangles!
LEARNING OBJECTIVE - TO UNDERSTAND NEOLITHIC BURIAL CUSTOMS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=P6XAFJ_FdOA
Newgrange Video
LEARNING OBJECTIVE - TO UNDERSTAND NEOLITHIC BURIAL CUSTOMS
What does Newgrange tell us about the people who built it?
1.They were well organised
2.They were great builders
3.They had a religion and believed in the afterlife
4.They were astronomers and mathematicians
5.They had many skilled craftsmen.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE - TO UNDERSTAND NEOLITHIC BURIAL CUSTOMS
Key Terms: Court
Passage
Cremated
Burial Chamber
Cairn
Portal Dolmen
Corbelled roof
Homework Write up key terms in back of notebook
using notes and the book pg. 24- 27 and revise!LEARNING OBJECTIVE - TO UNDERSTAND NEOLITHIC BURIAL
CUSTOMS