Posted on 09/01/2020 7:57:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The foundations of a 5,700-year-old Neolithic house, evidence of Bronze Age burials and Iron Age smelting have been discovered by archaeologists as a result of excavations at the sites of two road realignment projects in Co. Cork.
They were unearthed in a total of eight separate excavations carried out after the county council undertook two road realignment projects on the N73 (the main road between Mallow and Mitchelstown) close to the villages of Shanballymore and Kildorrery.
On one of the sites, archaeologists discovered the foundations of a Neolithic house dating back to approximately 3,700 BC, which they believe may have belonged to some of the first farming families to inhabit the area.
It's believed it once formed part of a small rural settlement founded by these pioneering early farmers.
Pottery, stone tools and grain from the same period were also discovered at the site.
It's believed that farming knowledge would only have arrived in Ireland around 200 years before this community was established in the North Cork area.
Neolithic settlers were also the first people in Ireland to produce pottery and used distinctive stone tools, examples of which were found at the site.
(Excerpt) Read more at irishexaminer.com ...
I am assuming that the stone walls in the picture are not neolithic, but later. Am I wrong?
So, they had whiskey....................
LOL!!
Interesting disc object with a hole in the middle. What could that have been used for?
Necklace, maybe for the head of the village.
:^) Ya build with what ya have. Post-Roman construction in Britain was wattle-and-daub walls and thatch roofs, that may have been in introduction by the Anglo-Saxons, but was likely commonplace for a really, really long time, and not just in the British Isles. When your house gets burned down a few times, and/or you have some cold winters, stone looks like a better idea. Also, the remains of mud huts tend to be a bit ephemeral -- more of them at the time, but the remains are more fragile as well as easily missed.
I understand that point, the geometry is really what I was wondering about, rectilineal vice round.
[snip] Unlike the prior periods of the Stone Age, people in the Neolithic Age mostly lived in settled societies. Because of this, they no longer lived in impermanent structures like huts and caves, but, for the most part, actually built homes. Homes were usually built around a central hearth, or stone or brick fireplace, which was used to warm the house and to cook. At the beginning of the period, homes were usually one room, but towards the end, they were often multi-roomed, sometimes even having two stories. These homes, often called long houses, were usually rectangular, no matter how many rooms they had. Homes were made primarily of mud brick, which was simply mud formed into bricks and dried. While mud brick was not as sturdy or permanent as other materials, it was cheap and easy to make since mud was easy to find. Mud brick homes sometimes had wood frames depending on the location, but were mostly made from mud brick with just one door and no windows. [/snip]
https://study.com/academy/lesson/neolithic-age-homes-architecture.html
Thanks
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They didn't have nice big rot resistant chestnut trees to build with as they did in the US.
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