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This document provides a glossary of terms related to the Neolithic period and the Bronze and Iron Ages. It defines key concepts like Neolithic, agriculture, livestock, sedentary, social equality, fertile, metallurgy, Copper Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, bartering, trade, plough, megalithic monuments, menhir, dolmen, and cromlech. The Neolithic period began around 8000 BC with the development of agriculture and domestication of animals. Important later developments included the uses of copper, bronze, and iron, as well as innovations like the plough and engagement in trade and bartering. Megalithic monuments from this era included men

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GLOSSARY

UNIT 2. THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD AND THE BRONZE AND IRON


AGES

Neolithic: it is a prehistorical period which means new stone and


began around 8000 B.C., when agriculture and domestication of
animals appeared.
Agriculture: to cultivate the land.
Livestock: to domesticate animals and breed them in captivity.
Sedentary: it means to settle permanently in villages and small
settlements. This way of life was adopted firstly by the Neolithic
groups.
Social equality: none held power over the others.
Fertile: capable of producing vegetation abundantly.
Metallurgy: technique that consists of heating metals to high
temperatures in order to shape them into objetcs. This discovery was
probably made when people saw metals fall into a fire, melt and then
harden when they cooled.
Copper Age: first period of the Metal Ages that took place before
5000 B.C. when copper began to be used on the Anatolian Peninsula.
Bronze Age: second period of the Metal Ages that took place in
Mesopotamia around 3000 BC when bronze (an alloy of copper and
tin) was discovered.
Iron Age: last period of the Metal Ages when the technique for
smelting iron was discovered around 1500 BC on the Anatolian
Peninsula.
Bartering: to exchange one product for another without using
money.
Trade: to exchange surplus products.
Plough: agricultural tool pulled by animals that allowed people to
farm larger areas of land. It was invented in the Neolithic Period.
Megalithic monuments: enormous blocks of stone (megaliths),
which were placed on their own or arranged together to form a
structure.
Menhir: a large stone pushed into the ground. It was used to mark
burial grounds or territorial boundaries.
Dolmen: this was composed of various megaliths in the form of a
table. It was used as a funeral chamber for collective burials.
Cromlech: this was composed of various megaliths in the form of a
circle. It was possibly used for sun worship. The most famous one is
Stonehenge (England).

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