At the end of the Iron Age, coins were made Year Three and used as Ice Age, Stone Age to currency. Bronze Age to Iron Age During the Iron Age, An ice age is when settlements became temperatures all over The most recent Ice Age larger because tribes the world are very low started between Glossary were better able to farm and stay low for a long 110,000 and 70,000 Autumn 1 and defend themselves. time. Glaciers are years ago and lasted Archaeologist - someone who Large numbers of studies the past by exploring old formed in an ice age and until around 12,000 remains people lived in hill forts continually expand years ago. built on higher land. during this time. Artefact - an object from the past that shows evidence of what life Ice Age Map with Ice was like and Extra Land The IRON AGE Humans were Barrow - a large structure made followed the Bronze around in the last ice age of earth that people used to build Age. It was called and made good use of Megafauna existed in the Ice Age. These were over graves the Iron Age because the extra land to migrate large animals where an adult weighed over to different places in the 44kg. Megafauna included the woolly Bronze - copper and tin are tools were now made mammoth, sabre-toothed cats, giants sloths melted together to make a metal from iron. Iron was world. These humans, who survived the Ice Age and a huge armadillo-type creature called a called bronze heated up and then glyptodon. hammered into and are our ancestors, Century - a period of 100 years were Homo sapiens. shape while hot. Circa - Latin meaning 'around' e.g. c.800BC means around 800BC The The STONE AGE followed Druids - powerful religious We also BRONZE AGE followed people see a the Stone Age. It was the Ice Age. This period of change in called the Bronze Age history is called the Stone Homo sapiens - the scientific clothing as Age because it wool was because humans started Skara Brae is an name for the human species, in was when early humans, woven into making tools from… extremely well particular early man known as cavemen, preserved Stone Age sheets of Bronze! fabric and started using stones for Village built in the Hillfort - settlements built on used to Bronze was an alloy hills to provide more protection their tools and Neolithic period, make made from copper around 3000BC. It was clothes. weapons. Invasion - to try to take over a and tin. discovered in 1850 place by force The Bronze Age after a heavy storm stripped away the earth people no longer Loom - an apparatus that makes that had previously fabric using threads used one dwelling been covering what we for everything. They can see today. Migration - movement from one built roundhouses place to another in order to settle and they had there different uses for Rampart - a defensive wall built each roundhouse. for protection Settler/settlement - people who migrate to a new place. When people start a community, this is a settlement. Stone Circle - burials took place in stone circles