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The Stone Age The Bronze Age The Iron Age (to 2300 BCE) (From 2300 BCE to 800 BCE) (From 800 BCE to 43 CE)

The Stone Age is the name given to the earliest The Bronze Age is the name given to the time The Iron Age is the name given to the time period period of human culture – from the dawn of period when bronze replaced stone as the in which iron became the preferred choice of civilisation 2.5 million years ago, to around 5000 preferred material for making tools and weapons. metal for making tools. It followed the Bronze Age, years ago, when humans began utilising metal to This, along with other developments, helped to which had followed the Stone Age. make tools and objects. The Stone Age is often influence big changes in the ways that people The Iron Age began in the Ancient Near East divided into three periods: lived. (today the countries of the Middle East) around The Bronze Age is the period of time between the 1200BCE, spreading quickly to the Mediterranean -Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) to 10,000 BCE Stone Age and the Iron Age. It is difficult to give an basin and to South Asia. However, it did not reach exact time period for when the Bronze Age central Asia until some time later, and did not -Mesolithic (Mid Stone Age) to 4000 BCE occurred, as bronze was discovered in different reach Northern Europe until around 500 BCE. The places at different times. However, most experts Iron Age in Britain is defined as being between -Neolithic (New Stone Age) to 2300 BCE suggest that the Bronze Age started around 800BCE and 43CE. 3300BCE and ended in most regions by 1200BCE.

4000 BCE 3000 BCE 3000 BCE 2300 BCE 1600 BCE 1500 BCE 1200 BCE 4000 BCE Adoption of agriculture Stonehenge was started Skara Brae built Bronze working introduced Stonehenge abandoned Villages and mixed farming First hillforts Ironworking introduced 4000 BCE Adoption of agriculture Year 3: Settlements in the Stone Age and the Iron Age

The Swanscombe Woman Read Lady of Paviland Amesbury Archer Lindow Man

Stone Age Stone Age Bronze Age Iron Age

The Amesbury Archer is In 1935/1936 the fossilised skull an early Bronze Age fragments of a woman were found in man whose grave was Swanscombe in north-west Kent. discovered during Scientists have proven that the skull is excavations at the site the remains of a Neanderthal who of a new housing lived around 400,000 years ago development in Amesbury near Stonehenge. The grave was uncovered in May Lindow Man, is the 2002, and the man is preserved bog body of believed to date from a man discovered in a about 2300 BC. He is peat bog at Lindow nicknamed "the Archer" Moss near Wilmslow in because of the many Cheshire, North West arrowheads that were England. The human among the artefacts remains were found on buried with him. The skull was found in three parts In 1823 the remains of 1 August 1984. The find, The Red Lady of described as "one of the Paviland were most significant discovered in the archaeological Goat;s Hole cave on discoveries of the 1980s", Gower in Wales. The palaeontologist who discovered them mistakenly believed that the skeleton was a Roman female as it had been dyed red. However, they were actually the remains of Historians created a model of a 21 year old male and what they thought the were 33,000 years old. Swanscombe woman may These are the oldest have looked like. remains in Britain. Image of what they believe Lindow Man looked like.