How Did Mt Sandel Influence The Existence Of People In Ireland

In this essay, it will discuss how the excavations at Mount Sandel shape our understanding of the Mesolithic in Ireland; it will explore the arrival of people in Ireland, and then briefly look at Mesolithic sites, houses, food and family, work and tools and how they practice religion if they had a religion. Most of Ireland 12,000 years ago would have been covered in ice. The Ice age came to an end as the glaciers melted and sea levels slowly rises, new plants along with trees started to cover the land. It is believed that animals migrated from Britain and the Continent. However it is much harder to know how the first people came to Ireland, despite this we do know that the first people arrived in Ireland in the Mesolithic Period also known as The Middle Stone Age.

These people were hunters, fishers and gathers. Tools and Weapons these people used were made out of stone; this how the Mesolithic Period can also be called the Stone Age. Some people may question why it took the first people so long to come to Ireland; this is due to Ireland location been isolated from the rest of world. Even though it has been around 10,000 years since the first people’s arrival in Ireland we know about them due to excavations of archaeologists findings. In 1977, archaeologists excavated a site on the bank of the river Bann at Mount Sandel in County Derry, the evidence from and other sites around the country ,including Lough Boora, in county Offaly tells us how the first people lived . Archaeologists dated these sites back to the Mesolithic Period by using Carbon