• 1st evidence - stone tools 250 000BC • two groups of inhabitants - first used tools from flakes of flint, other from its core • habitable next time - 50 000BC • 10 000BC - small groups of hunters, gatherers and fishers • 5000BC - became island - disaster forthem - some animals almost died out • 3000BC - Neolithic peple came from Spain or N. Africa in small boats • henges - centres of political, religious and political power • Stonehenge - capital, where all chiefs came to • 2400BC - new group of round headed, strongly built people came - soon became leaders of society o „beaker“ people o brought barley o used bronze tools • 1300BC - henge society overtaken by a farming class (hill-forts) • power shifted to the Thames valley (e.g., better bronze tools)