The Stone Age and the land bridge

Study note

The very first people in Britain were hunter-gatherers who lived during the Stone Age. For much of this time Britain was joined to the rest of Europe by a land bridge, so people and animals could move freely back and forth. Britain became permanently cut off from the continent, becoming an island, only about 10,000 years ago when the Channel formed.

Memory tip: Stone Age = hunter-gatherers; Britain became an island about 10,000 years ago.