História Veľkej Británie

• 1st evidence - stone tools 250 000BC
• two groups of inhabitants - first used tools from flakes of flint, other from its core
• habitable next time - 50 000BC
• 10 000BC - small groups of hunters, gatherers and fishers
• 5000BC - became island - disaster forthem - some animals almost died out
• 3000BC - Neolithic peple came from Spain or N. Africa in small boats
• henges - centres of political, religious and political power
• Stonehenge - capital, where all chiefs came to
• 2400BC - new group of round headed, strongly built people came - soon became leaders of society
o „beaker“ people
o brought barley
o used bronze tools
• 1300BC - henge society overtaken by a farming class (hill-forts)
• power shifted to the Thames valley (e.g., better bronze tools)