Starter quiz
- Which era used iron to create tools and weapons?
- Stone Age
- Bronze Age
- Iron Age ✓
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- Put these periods in history in order.
- 1⇔Stone Age
- 2⇔Bronze Age
- 3⇔Iron Age
- 4⇔Roman Empire
- Match the era to the approximate start dates in Britain.
- Stone Age⇔2 million years ago ✓
- Bronze Age⇔4 thousand years ago ✓
- Iron Age⇔2 thousand 8 hundred years ago ✓
- Roman Empire⇔1 thousand 9 hundred and 80 years ago ✓
- There is very little written evidence from the Iron Age because people did not write. True or False?
- True ✓
- False
- What do historians and archaeologists use to learn about the prehistoric past?
- photographs
- written evidence
- artefacts ✓
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- What does an archaeologist study?
- Agriculture
- Animals
- Human history ✓
- Geography
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Exit quiz
- What is a peat bog?
- a wet and muddy area of ground where peat forms over time ✓
- a dry and sandy area of ground where plants struggle to survive
- a cold and deep area of water where ice often covers the surface
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- Lindow Man is believed to have lived during the ______.
- 1960s
- Victorian era
- Stone Age
- Iron Age ✓
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- Match the keyword to the correct definition.
- peat⇔a type of soil formed in bogs over a long period of time ✓
- archaeologist⇔someone who studies human history by looking at artefacts ✓
- bog⇔an area of wet, muddy ground ✓
- preserved⇔when something is kept in its original state ✓
- Put these events into the correct order.
- 1⇔Lindow Man died and his body was left in a peat bog.
- 2⇔Andy Mould was working as a peat worker when he discovered a human body.
- 3⇔The body was found to be an ancient Iron Age man.
- 4⇔Archaeologists looked at the preserved body to find out about the Iron Age.
- 5⇔There are still many questions archaeologists have about Lindow Man.
- Which of the following statements describe what Lindow Man looked like?
- brown hair ✓
- neatly trimmed beard ✓
- healthy teeth ✓
- dirty broken nails
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- Which of these things about Lindow Man can archaeologists answer?
- what his job was
- how he might have died ✓
- what he looked like ✓
- what he ate ✓
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Key learning points
- In 1984, workers at a peat bog in North West England made an incredible discovery: the preserved body of a man.
- Archaeologists aren't sure exactly when he died, but it was some time around the end of the Iron Age in Britain.
- By looking at this preserved body, archaeologists have been able to work out all sorts of things about Iron Age Britain.
- However, there are many questions that they still have about him and the time and society in which he lived.
Common misconception
That all bodies remain in a preserved state after death.
Explain that after death the body normally decomposes and a skeleton remains.
Keywords
Peat - peat is a type of soil formed in bogs over a long period of time
Archaeologist - an archaeologist is someone who studies human history by looking at artefacts
Bog - a bog is an area of wet, muddy ground
Preserved - if something is preserved, it is kept in its original state
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