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10,000-2000 BCE
Team Leader Kathleen NiBhriain
prior to 10,000 BCE |
Pollen analysis done on bogs reveals landscape with tundra vegitation in Ireland during this period.[4]
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10,000-8800 BCE |
Vegetation in Ireland consisting mainly of grasses, herbs, birch and juniper. Reindeer, brown bear, mammoth, lemming, Arctic Fox and Giant Irish Deer plentiful.[4]
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8800-8300 BCE |
Ireland's terrain returns to a tundra type of vegetation.[4]
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8000 BCE |
Begining of Neolithic Age, possible evidence of people in Ireland
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6000-5000 BCE |
Mesolithic Period
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5000-2500 BCE |
Neolithic period in Ireland and Scotland
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2500 BCE |
Boyne Culture
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2200 BCE |
Late Neolithic, Early Bronze Age
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Sources:
Ireland In Prehistory, Michael Herity and George Eogan, Routledge, ©1997, ISBN 0-415-04889-3
A History of Ireland, Peter & Fiona Somerset Fry, © Barnes & Noble Books, 1993, New York, ISBN 1-56619-215-3. (Orig. printing © 1988, Peter Fry, Routledge Press)
prepared by Kathleen NiBriain
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