First settlements in the british isles

1. By
Adriana Uslenghi Amoroso
Ana Laura Marin Alfonso

2. 500.000 BC - People migrated from Europe.
250.000-300.000 BC-The Early Britons Human and Prehuman remains
have been found in Britain, but these earliest inhabitants seem to have left
during the last Ice Age, which ended about 50.000 years ago.
6500 BC - The land bridge connecting Britain to Europe was swamped as
the sea level rises. As a result of that, the British peninsula became an
Island.
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3. 3100 BC Stonehenge started to build in what is now known as Wiltshire,
dragging each stone into place
3000 BC New Stone Age begins: agriculture people arrived from Europe

4. THE BEAKER FOLK
In 2000 BC people from Northern Europe came to Britain. They were
known as Beaker Folk. Not much is known about these early
inhabitants. They were organized in small communities, and as the
population increased they moved from hunting-gathering to agriculture
in a way alike to that of many other people across the world.
The most important physical remnants of the early Britons are the great
stone or megalithic circles.
Bronze ornaments were their important achievement. They had religion
already. Stonehenge was the evidence.

5. 2000 BC Stonehenge was completed. Use to be a burial
ground.

6. 2150 BC People learned to make bronze weapons and tools
2100 BC Bronze Age begin

7. Bronze Age Britain ushered in a new world of commerce and
trade ,many opportunities to gain wealth and prestige.This
was a kind of golden age in the british history.

8. 1650 BC it began to form
the trade routes
1200 BC the first small
villages were formed

9. 750 BC Iron Age started: iron replaces bronze as most
useful metal. Population about 150.000

10. The diffuse of cultural artifacts and styles we now call
Celtic, was an important aspect of the long transition from
Bronze Age to the Iron Age Britain.
This was a turning point in the history because it would
change what people lived and the settlement of Britain as
a whole.
Iron was the metal of the people ,working tools for working
men.

11. Between 800-600 BC it was a big crisis, driving Britain into a
period of social turmoil. As a result of that, it would utterly reshape
British society. It became more locally, focused,people began to
find local solutions to problems.
500 BC The Celtic people
arrived from Central Europe.

12. Until the arrival of Celts
there was not
permanent homes.
With them, starts the Tribes.
This is a map based on the Atlas of Roman Britain.

13. The Celts ,also called Brythons, were
farmers.Their fields tended to be long
and narrow. Celtic lands were owned
communally, and wealth has been based
largely on the size of cattle herd owned.
Celtic´s families were much extended like
clans where children were raised by
foster parents. Each clan had its own
social structure and customs.
One of the interesting innovations that
The Celts brought to Britain was the
method of iron ploughing.
They made the farmlands permanent.
Sheep and cattle were given shelter
within the outer introduced iron wrought.

14. Another area where oral traditions were
important was in the training of Druids.
They were a curious lot; a sort of super-
class of priests, political advisors,
teachers, healers, and arbitrators.

15. They were tall, strong and muscular man
with fair complexions; were high spirited,
temperamental, and when they were not
fighting, they were enjoying feasting.
Spoke Celt language. The trace of it can still
be found in Cornwall, Ireland and Wales and
in the north-west of Scotland.

16. Their language as a written Celtic language, but
it developed well into Christian times, so for
much of Celtic history they relied on oral
transmission of culture, primarily through the
efforts of bards and poets.
Druids could not read or write, but they
memorized all the religious teachings, the tribal
laws, history, medicine and other knowledge
necessary in Celtic society.

17. Celtic warriors would
cut off the heads of
their enemies in battle
and display them as
trophies, by taking the
head of a vanquished
foe they were
appropriating that
power for themselves.
It was a kind of bloody
religious observance.

18. They were also warlike people, they fought against the people of
Britain and other Celtic tribes.
The Celts loved war. The main problem with the Celts was that they
couldn't stop fighting among themselves long enough to put up a
unified front. Each tribe was out for itself, and in the long run this
cost them control of Britain.
They were experienced fighters, armed with iron swords and daggers.
A Celtic chief had a chariot. It was buried with him when he died.
Wherever they went they conquered.

19. BIBLIOGRAPHY
● Burns, William E. A Brief History of Great Britain. Published 2010
● McDowall, David. An Illustrated History of Britain. Published by Longman, 2006
● Lang, Sean. British History For Dummies®, 2nd Edition. Published by John Wiley &
Sons, Ltd. 2006
● Rolleston, Thomas William. Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race. Published by
Constable and Company Limited, London 2010.
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