LICEO SCIENTIFICO A.EINSTEIN 2012/2013 MANUEL FERRIGNO & MARCO SCHMIDT 3A

From Neolithic to Bronze Age, BC Britain became an island after the end of the last ice age (about 8000 years ago). The earliest people who lived in Britain were descendants of homo sapiens, they lived by fishing and hunting.

THE DAWN OF FARMING The introducing of farming was a very important change in human history. Farming started to develop in Britain between 5000BC and 4500 BC farming was imported by people from the continent. They started to built their villages.

STONEHENGE Stonehenge is a circular building composed by stones. It is collocated near the town of Salisbury. The stones were put in place in three main phases 3100–1550 BC. there are many theories about the bulding of stonehenge. People believe that it was a place of worship and ritual.

BRONZE AGE – LATE BRONZE AGE Bronze age started about 2500 B.C People lived in round houses grouped togheter. Metalworks improved. The first hillforts were built in the late bronze age.

IRON AGE – 800 BC The Celts were technically advanced. They cuold work iron and produced new weapons. They used new farming methods.

CELTIC HILLFORTS Celts lived in round houses and they built hill forts for religious activitys and trade.

CELTIC LIFE Celts didn’t leave us any books because they coudn’t write and read, but Greeks and Romans wrote about them. In the celts life Druids usually sacrificed food for keep their Gods happy. they were fierce warriors. Their most used weapons were sword and spear. The Celts were proud, brave and skilled fighters, they were rather undisciplined.

RELIGION AND BELIEF Archaeologists believe that the Iron Age Celts had many gods and goddesses and that the Celts worshipped their gods through sacrifice, giving them valuable objects to keep them happy. The Celts also sacrificed weapons to the gods by throwing them into lakes and rivers The druids were the Celts' priests, responsible for all sorts of religious ceremonies. They were educated and powerful members of the tribe.

THE END OF THE CELTIC AGE By 450 BC hill forts were abandoned or transformed into primitive towns About 200 BC Roman influence began to extend into Western Europe and Britain. When the Romans conquered Gaul, the British Celts helped the Celts of Gaul. The Romans invaded Britain so that they could use British food for the Roman army in Gaul. In AD 43 the Romans conquered England. They could never conquer Scotland.