What did people do in the Bronze Age?

Later Bronze Age. Textile production had also got under way by this time. Women would wear long woollen skirts and short tunics. The men wore knee-length wrap-around skirts, or kilt-like woollens, as well as tunics, cloaks and even one-piece garments. read more

Bronze Age people crossed the sea in long wooden boats. A boat found at Dover needed 18 men to paddle it! During the Bronze Age, many people crossed the sea from mainland Europe to Britain. read more

From about 2000 BC to 1800 BC a people skilled in metalwork came to live in Ireland. They made bronze tools and weapons. To do this they mixed copper from Ireland with tin from Spain. Bronze was easier to shape than stone and it did not break as easily. Bronze Age people built circles made of standing stones called stone circles. read more

The Bronze Age was a time in early human history when people first began to use tools made of bronze. Bronze is a hard, yellowish alloy, or mixture of metals. People make it by melting copper and tin together. The Bronze Age began in some places about 5,000 years ago. read more