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Stone Age to Iron Age All Dates Shown Below Are Approximate Key dates to learn: Key Vocabulary to use: Stone Age to Iron Age All dates shown below are approximate. Chronology The arrangement of dates or events in the order in 800,000 BC Earliest footprints in Year 3 which they occurred. Britain The period of prehistory in Britain generally refers to the time before BC A way of dating years written records began. It begins when the earliest hunter-gatherers Before Christ before the birth of Jesus. The bigger the number 10,000 BC End of the last Ice came to Britain from Europe around 450,000 BC and ends with the BC, the longer ago in Age invasion of the Romans in AD 43. history is was. AD “In the year of our 4000 BC Adoption of agriculture The Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age covers 98% of human Anno Domini Lord”. AD is used to show dates after the birth history in Britain. The evolution of humans from the earliest hominins of Jesus. This year is AD 3000 BC Stonehenge started to Homo sapiens occurred in this period. Some of the major advances 2019. in technology were achieved, including the control of fire, agriculture, Archaeology The study of the 3000 BC Skara Brae built buildings, graves, tools metalworking and the wheel. and other objects that 2300 BC Bronze working belonged to people who STONE AGE lived in the past, in order introduced to learn about their Palaeolithic to 10,000 BC culture and society. 1200 BC First hillforts Prehistoric Belonging to the time Mesolithic to 4000 BC before written records 800 BCE Ironworking introduced were made. Historical Anything left over from 120 BC Coins introduced from Neolithic to 2300 BC evidence the past is a source of evidence. Europe BRONZE AGE Hunter- People who found food gatherers from their local AD 43 Roman invasion 2300 BC to 800 BC environment and then moved from site to site IRON AGE depending on the season. Agriculture The practice of growing crops or raising animals. 800 BC to AD 43 The Neolithic or New Stone Age saw the beginnings of agriculture. Old Stone Age (Paleolithic) The Bronze Age 1. Hunter-gatherers found food by roaming from place to place in different 1. When people discovered how to get metals out of rocks, a metal seasons. They hunted fish, hare, deer and hyena. They gathered berries, called bronze replaced stone as the best material for making tools. eggs, nuts and seeds. 2. Bronze was made using a special process called ‘smelting’. People 2. Stone age people were skilled toolmakers. They used flakes of stone to make were able to build better farming equipment and they also began to knives, spearheads, arrowheads engraving tools, make bronze weapons and jewellery. piercing tools and scrapers. 3. Techniques for extracting metal were probably brought 3. Stone age animals – Woolly mammoth, wild boar, to Britain by the Beaker culture. The Beaker people sabre-tooth tiger, wolf and cave bear (to name just a were the first Europeans to work with metal and are few!). named after the bell shaped-beakers they made. Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic) The Iron Age 1. Began at a time when sea levels rose and Britain became an island 1. In the Iron Age, a metal called iron replaced bronze as the main (before this time Britain was joined to the mainland of Europe). material for making tools. People lived in tribes and they were often 2. During the Mesolithic period, tools were at war with each other. Because of all of the wars, Iron Age people developed to become smaller and finer. began to protect themselves by settling in hillforts, which were groups 3. Instead of living in caves (Paleolithic) people of round houses and farming land protected by stonewalls. began to live in circular structures like teepees. 2. Most Iron Age homes were roundhouses. Some had timber frames and wattle (woven wood) and daub (mud and straw) walls. Inside the New Stone Age (Neolithic) home there was one circular room and at the centre was a hearth fire. 1. The way people lived changed a lot because they began to settle into 3. Sometimes people from the Iron Age are called ‘Celts’. This period of farming villages instead of moving from place to place. People tame history ended when the Romans invaded Britain in AD 43. animals and grow crops. 2. One of the best-preserved new Stone villages is Skara Brae. 3. Stonehenge is built in stages over about a thousand years. .
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