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    The document provides an overview of prehistoric Britain from 4000BC to 43AD. It discusses how the first humans arrived as hunter-gatherers around 8000BC and lived off the land. In 4000BC, farmers from Europe arrived and began clearing forests for agriculture, rapidly increasing the population. Subsequent groups including the Belgae, Celts and Gauls migrated to Britain, particularly the Celts who brought an artistic style featuring twisted forms. The Romans invaded in 43AD and encountered the Druids, Celtic priests, at Stonehenge.

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    The document provides an overview of prehistoric Britain from 4000BC to 43AD. It discusses how the first humans arrived as hunter-gatherers around 8000BC and lived off the land. In 4000BC, farmers from Europe arrived and began clearing forests for agriculture, rapidly increasing the population. Subsequent groups including the Belgae, Celts and Gauls migrated to Britain, particularly the Celts who brought an artistic style featuring twisted forms. The Romans invaded in 43AD and encountered the Druids, Celtic priests, at Stonehenge.

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    The document provides an overview of prehistoric Britain from 4000BC to 43AD. It discusses how the first humans arrived as hunter-gatherers around 8000BC and lived off the land. In 4000BC, farmers from Europe arrived and began clearing forests for agriculture, rapidly increasing the population. Subsequent groups including the Belgae, Celts and Gauls migrated to Britain, particularly the Celts who brought an artistic style featuring twisted forms. The Romans invaded in 43AD and encountered the Druids, Celtic priests, at Stonehenge.

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    Prehistoric Britain

    by Ben Johnson
    In Britain’s history the period 4000BC – 43AD is referred to as Prehistory, as there are

    no written records covering these times. The information available has been pieced

    together like a jigsaw from archaeological finds. Like a real jigsaw, pieces are

    sometimes incorrectly placed or are missing altogether, which results in a constantly

    changing tapestry of bygone times.

    The first people to arrive in Britain were hunter-gatherers who arrived from mainland

    Europe around 8,000 BC. As the name suggests these first Britons lived off the wealth

    of the land including the native elk, wild cattle and pigs, whilst presumably attempting

    to avoid the bears and wolves which also roamed the heavily wooded interior.

    It was not until about 4000 BC that a party of ‘young farmers’ arrived from southern

    Europe bringing with them perhaps the first phase in man-made environmental

    disasters. The ancient practise of deforestation was instigated as trees, woods and

    forests were cleared to create land to accommodate domesticated plants and

    animals. These ‘young farmers’ proved to be so effective at genetically modified

    breeding (crops and livestock) that the population of Britain rocketed to

    approximately one million by 1400 BC.

    Following the ‘young farmers’ other visitors from Europe came – Belgae, Celts and

    Gauls arrived starting the trend for the multi-cultural Britain of today. In particular it is

    the arrival of the Celts in Britain that provokes thoughts of a period of time shrouded

    in mystery and myth. The artistic style of these Iron Age people, twisting and bending

    animal, plant and human forms, are common across Europe.


    The Shaman or priests of the Celts known as Druids proved an irritant to the Romans

    when they arrived in 43 AD – today Druids still welcome the summer solstice each

    year at Stonehenge.

    This brief review has condensed the past several thousand years to just a few

    sentences. Historians have tended to further segregate these times based upon the

    materials of manufacture of the people’s favourite hunting or fighting implements,

    namely:

    c. 4000 – 2000 BC Neolithic (New Stone) Age


    c. 2000 – 750 BC Bronze Age
    c. 750 BC – 43 AD Iron Age

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