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The Battersea Shield, c. 350–50 BC. The British Iron Age is a conventional name used in the archaeology of Great Britain, referring to the prehistoric and protohistoric phases of the Iron Age culture of the main island and the smaller islands, typically excluding prehistoric Ireland, which had an independent Iron Age culture of its own.
The start of the Iron Age is marked by new cultural groupings, or at least terms for them, ... In the British Isles, the British Iron Age lasted from about 800 BC ...
The Iron Age did not start when iron first appeared in Europe but it began to replace bronze in the preparation of tools and weapons. [34] It did not happen at the same time throughout Europe; local cultural developments played a role in the transition to the Iron Age.
Iron Age Roman. Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa: Earlier Stone Age Middle Stone Age Later Stone Age Neolithic c. 4000 BCE Bronze Age (3500 – 600 BCE) Iron Age (550 BC – 700 CE) Classic Middle Ages (c. 700 – 1700 CE) Asia Near East Levantine: Stone Age (2,000,000 – 3300 BCE) Bronze Age (3300 – 1200 BCE) Iron Age (1200 – 586 BCE)
The Iron Age is conventionally said to begin around 800 BC. At this time, the Britons or Celtic Britons were settled in England. The Celtic people of early England were the majority of the population, beside other smaller ethnic groups in Great Britain.
Old Oswestry, an Iron Age hillfort. c. 800 BC Celts bring iron working to Britain; Hallstatt Culture. [19] c. 400 BC Parisi tribe from northern France settle in Yorkshire. [19] First brochs constructed. [19] c. 330 BC Pytheas of Massilia circumnavigates Britain. [19] c. 300 BC La Tène artwork introduced from northern France. [19] c. 100 BC
There was much less migration into Britain during the Iron Age, so it is likely that Celtic reached Britain before then. [50] The study also found that lactose tolerance rose swiftly in early Iron Age Britain, a thousand years before it became widespread in mainland Europe; suggesting milk became a very important foodstuff in Britain at this ...
Jōmon pottery, Japanese Stone Age Trundholm sun chariot, Nordic Bronze Age Iron Age house keys Cave of Letters, Nahal Hever Canyon, Israel Museum, Jerusalem. The three-age system is the periodization of human prehistory (with some overlap into the historical periods in a few regions) into three time-periods: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age, [1] [2] although the concept may ...