1. THE EARLIEST INHABITANTS, THE ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND, GEOGRAPHY OF THE UK

Swanscombe man

• the oldest inhabitant

• bones discovered in Kent

Homo sapiens

• inhabited caves

• hunted with stones and bone tools

Iberians

• the first settlers

• they were hunters,

• then they kept animals

• lived in “henges”

• became the forefathers of the dark-haired inhabitants of Wales and Cornwall

Beaker people

• named after beaker-shaped pots they made

• they knew bronze, barley, grain

• lived in the Thames valley and built “hill-forts”

• mastery of handcrafts developed trade among tribes

Celts

• bronze age

• red-haired warriors came from what is now Germany and the Netherlands

• they drove the inhabitants into outlying areas – tribal society

• they brought the knowledge of iron

iron age

• the Goidels came in 600 BC (now Scots and Irish)

• Brythons and Cymri (Welsh) in 300 BC

• Belgae in 100BC