Unit 5: Prehistory in the Iberian Peninsula 2025

Prehistory

Unit 5

Start

What are we going to study?

1. Timeline of History

2. Stone Age

3. Metal Ages

4. Pre-Romans

Timeline of History

Invention of writing.

476 A.C.

1.789 A.C.

History

Prehistory

Middle Ages

Ancient History

Metal Ages

Modern Age

Stone Age

Contemporary Age

Pre-Romans

1.492 A.C.

Neolithic

Paleolithic

It started 2.5 million years ago

It started around 3200 B.C. untill nowadays

1. Housing: They lived in caves or huts.

STONE AGE:

PALEolithic PERIOD

2. Food: They were hunter-gatherers and nomads. They cooked what they hunted or fished using fire. They collected berries, fruits and nuts.

3. Tools: They used tools made of stone, bone and wood.

ART

STONE AGE:

PALEolithic PERIOD

Through art, we can try to understand what people believed in, how they lived and which traditions and occupations they have.

Evidences of early humans through occupation in caves and fossils.

PAINTINGS IN CAVES: show charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of local animals and human hands. EXAMPLES: Atapuerca and Altamira.

STONE AGE:

1. Housing: They lived in more permanent settlements (next to rivers) becoming sedentary

NEolithic PERIOD

2. Food: They dedicated to agriculture and cultivated cereal grains. They domesticated animals (pigs, sheeps, goats, dogs...)

3. Tools: They crafted many sotisticated tools. There were advancements in pottery and sewing (fabric).

4. They invented the wheel.

ART

STONE AGE:

NEolithic PERIOD

Paintings depicted hunting scenes in one colour. Schematic figures with few details. Not painted inside the caves.

CARDIAL WARE: pottery with decorative style. Imprinting of the clay with a heart-shaped shell.

The metal ages:

The Copper Age

The Bronze Age

The Iron Age

• Copper helped humans to make better tools like knives, axes and jewellery.
• They made big structures of stone.

• They mixed copper and tin to get bronze.
• They started trading.
• They made big walls to defend their towns.
• They made better tools like swords and shields.

• People made stronger tools.
• They created writing systems using the alphabet.
• They started the first cities.
• They improve their art, architecture and agriculture.

ART

the metal ages

The Motillas were places r structures where they lived, defended (surrounded by walls) and kept food and water.

Los Millares were places where they centralised agriculture and livestock having a difficult system of walls.

Navetas are megalithic structures found only in Menorca. They were called like that because they looked like upside down boats. La Naveta d'Es Tudons is the best preserved.

Pre-Romans

Before the Romans invaded the Peninsula, different tribes were living here with their traditions. Let´s study them!

Northern tribes

Celts

Iberians

Tartessians

-Galaicos -Astures -Cántabros -Vascones

Pre-romans

NORTHERN TRIBES

TARTESSIANS

-Location: North of the Iberian Peninsula. -They were very good at metal work (bronze), crucial for their success in combat. -They lived in stone villages called castros. - They practised transhumance (movement to different pastures). - Art: sculpture and ceramics.

- Influenced by greeks, Phoenicians and Carthaginians. - Lands were rich in metal, such gold and silver. - They used their knowladge of metallurgy to make better weapons from iron and created adornments.

Pre-romans

CELTS

IBERIANS

• They were located along the Mediterranean sea coast.

• They were good farmers cultivating great vine and the olive tree.

• They made different types of sculptures.

• They were good at ceramics.

• The economy depended on agriculture and mining.

• Most of the Iberian Peninsula was habitated by celts.

• They were popular for their metallurgy skills.

• Celts adopted Iberian cultural traditions as creating stone sculptures of pigs and bulls.

• They were excelent making bronze and iron crafts. They used gold and other metals to make jewellery.

Let's practice!