Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) Britain is the period of the earliest known occupation of Britain by humans. This huge period saw many changes in the environment, encompassing several …

BRONZE AGE (2300–800 BC) In about 2300 BC the first metal weapons and jewellery began to arrive in Britain, along with a new kind of pottery known as Beaker. People were buried with …

Stonehenge, a Neolithic stone monument constructed from 3000 BC to 2000 BC. c. 4000 BC Neolithic period begins in Britain, introducing the first agriculture .

Britain lasted for hundreds of thousands of years and this long period of time is usually divided into: Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic (sometimes these three periods are combined and …

No human remains have been found, but stone tools discovered at Happisburgh in Norfolk and Pakefield in Suffolk reveal a human presence between 950,000 and 700,000 years ago. …

They are known as the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Click on the image to find out more.

The Stone Age in Britain took place between around 15000BC to 2500BC. The Mesolithic period is known as the middle stone age. Humans were hunter-gatherers and had to catch or find...

Neolithic (New Stone) Age. It was in the late Neolithic period that new and strange monuments started to take shape across the British Isles. All constructed using flint tools, the timber circles …

Palaeolithic means 'Old Stone Age'. The earliest evidence of human occupation in Britain may date to around 900,000 years ago. These are in the form of footprints discovered in 2013 at …

New Stone Age begins: farming people arrive from Europe. First stone circles erected. People learn to make bronze weapons and tools. Introduction of cremation of the dead and burials in …