Where did Bronze Age Britons come from?

Around 4,000 years ago the Bronze Age came to Britain. This was the crucial period that linked the Stone Age with the Iron Age, and during which it seems new people came in from continental Europe. What did the newcomers bring to these islands? read more

Bronze Age Britain is an era of British history that spanned from c. 2500 until c. 800 BC. Lasting for approximately 1,700 years, it was preceded by the era of Neolithic Britain and was in turn followed by the period of Iron Age Britain. read more

Archaeologists still do not agree on the exact sequence of events that led to culmination of bronze metallurgy in the later Neolithic/Early Bronze Age, first in Western Asia in the third millennium BCE, quickly spreading outward from there. read more