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Bronze Age Britain is an era of British history that spanned from c. 2500–2000 BC until c. 800 BC. [1] Lasting for approximately 1,700 years, it was preceded by the era of Neolithic Britain and was in turn followed by the period of Iron Age Britain .
The new international trade routes opened by the Beaker people became firmly established and the culture was succeeded by a number of Bronze Age cultures, among them the Únětice culture in Central Europe, the Elp culture and Hilversum culture in the Netherlands, the Atlantic Bronze Age in Great Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic coast of ...
A 2017 study suggests a major genetic shift in late Neolithic/early Bronze Age Britain, so that more than 90% of Britain's Neolithic gene pool was replaced with the coming of a people genetically related to the Beaker people of the lower-Rhine area.
More than 30 people ‘butchered and cannibalised’ in ‘exceptionally violent’ Bronze age massacre. ... Given that villages in early Bronze Age Britain had between 50 and 100 residents ...
An analysis of the exceptionally well preserved remains of a Bronze Age village reveals the cozy domesticity of life in Britain 2,850 years ago.
In Great Britain, the Bronze Age is considered to have been the period from around 2100 to 700 BC. Immigration brought new people to the islands from the continent. Recent tooth enamel isotope research on bodies found in early Bronze Age graves around Stonehenge indicate that at least some of the immigrants came from the area of modern Switzerland.
It found that at least 37 Bronze Age-era men, women and children were "killed and butchered" and then cannibalized, with their bodies then thrown down a nearly 50-foot deep natural shaft.
The Uffington White Horse, a Bronze Age hill figure. c. 1800 BC Wessex culture brings bronze-working to Britain. [19] c. 1600 BC Last known major construction at Stonehenge. c. 1400 BC Wessex culture replaced by more agrarian peoples; stone circles and early hillforts produced. [19] c. 1380-550 BC Uffington White Horse hill figure cut in ...