Prehistoric Britain spans from over 2.5 million years ago to 43 AD. The first humans arrived as hunter-gatherers using simple stone tools. Later, Neolithic communities erected the first stone circles for ceremonial rituals. Around 2500 BC, Beaker people from Spain immigrated with metalworking skills, making gold, copper and bronze implements. In the Iron Age starting around 750 BC, the Celtic Britons settled, becoming skilled farmers and metalworkers who built villages and hill forts and used iron weapons and tools.

1. PREHISTORIC BRITAIN
BC

2. OLD STONE AGE
• THE FIRST MEN AND WOMEN CAME TO BRITAIN OVER TWO AND A HALF MILLION
YEARS AGO. THEY WERE HUNTERS AND GATHERERS OF FOOD WHO USED
SIMPLE STONE TOOLS AND WEAPONS.
• PEOPLE MIGRATE TO BRITAIN FROM EUROPE.
• FIRST STONE CIRCLES ERECTED. THEY WERE BUILT BY NEOLITHIC
COMMUNITIES MAINLY FOR CEREMONIAL RITUALS.

3. BRONZE AGE
AROUND 2200 TO 750 BC)
• THERE IS NO CLEAR DIVISION BETWEEN THE STONE AND THE BRONZE AGE IN
BRITAIN. AROUND 2500 BC THE BEAKER PEOPLE (ORIGINALLY FROM SPAIN)
BEGAN TO IMMIGRATE TO BRITAIN AND BROUGHT METAL-WORKING SKILLS WITH
THEM. THEY MADE GOLD, COPPER AND BRONZE IMPLEMENTS AND
ORNAMENTS.

4. IRON AGE
(AROUND 750 BC – 43 AD)
 IRON REPLACES BRONZE AS MOST USEFUL METAL.
 CELTIC PEOPLE CALLED BRITONS SETTLES IN BRITAIN. THEY WERE
WARRIORS AND FARMERS WHO WERE SKILLED METALWORKERS.
THEY BUILT VILLAGES AND HILL FORTS, AND USED IRON WEAPONS
AND TOOLS. CELTS CALLED GAELS LIVED IN IRELAND.
 THE CELTS WERE FARMERS AND LIVED IN SMALL VILLAGE GROUPS
IN THE CENTER OF THEIR ARABLE FIELDS. THEY WERE ALSO
WARLIKE PEOPLE. THE CELTS FOUGHT AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF
BRITAIN AND OTHER CELTIC TRIBES.