![]() The ice reached its greatestĮxtent around 26,000 years ago, and life for humans was impossible in Britain until it had retreated again around 11,600 years ago.Īt that point the temperature rose very rapidly. The last ice age was still under way: at times the temperature fell so low that sheets of ice covered the country and made it uninhabitable, driving people and animals to seek warmer environments farther south. Was connected to northern Europe by land. At the time, sea levels were lower, and Britain Like their predecessors, they were hunter-gatherers who made and used stone tools. ![]() People of our own species, Homo sapiens, may have reached Britain around 44,000 years ago. Hand axes – all-purpose butchering, digging and chopping tools – and hunted animals now extinct in Britain. About 340,000 – 300,000 years ago, when conditions were slightly warmer than at present, Neanderthal hunters lived alongside a channel of the Thames near Oxford where the village of Wolvercote now stands.
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