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Sea levels have dropped sufficiently for Neanderthals to return to Britain in the warmer periods, possibly only as summer visitors. [11] c. 44,000-41,000 BP Jawbone from Kents Cavern. First evidence of modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Britain. [12] [13] c. 40,000 BP Neanderthals go extinct across Europe. c. 26,000-13,000 BP
No written language of the pre-Roman inhabitants of Britain is known; therefore, the history, culture and way of life of pre-Roman Britain are known mainly through archaeological finds. Archaeological evidence demonstrates that ancient Britons were involved in extensive maritime trade and cultural links with the rest of Europe from the ...
Prehistoric Britain, Prehistoric Ireland 6th–1st c. BC: British Iron Age, Iron Age tribes in Britain, Insular Celtic Gauls: Brythons: Picts: Gaels 51 BC: Gallia Lugdunensis (Roman province) 43 AD: Britannia (Roman province) Roman conquest of Britain: 410: Brythons: Anglo-Saxon England: Hen Ogledd 638 Kingdom of Strathclyde: Viking raids: 843 ...
The Battersea Shield, c. 350–50 BC. The British Iron Age is a conventional name used in the archaeology of Great Britain, referring to the prehistoric and protohistoric phases of the Iron Age culture of the main island and the smaller islands, typically excluding prehistoric Ireland, which had an independent Iron Age culture of its own.
The UK's biggest ever dinosaur trackway site has been discovered in a quarry in Oxfordshire. About 200 huge footprints, which were made 166 million years ago, criss-cross the limestone floor.
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43: Roman invasion of Britain, ordered by Claudius, who dispatches Aulus Plautius and an army of some 40,000 men 60: Revolt against the Roman occupation, led by Boudica of the Iceni , begins c. 84: Romans defeat Caledonians at the battle of Mons Graupius