What is Timeline of prehistoric Britain?
Events from the '''[[Prehistoric Britain|prehistory]] of [[Great Britain|Britain]]''' (to 1 BC). The entries are backed by modern research in [[archaeology]]. ==Events== * c. '''950,000''' or '''840,000''' BC ** 2010. Flints worked in south-eastern Britain.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Parfitt|first=Simon A.|last2=Ashton|first2=Nick M.|last3=Lewis|first3=Simon G.|last4=Abel|first4=Richard L.|last5=Coope|first5=G. Russell|last6=Field|first6=Mike H.|last7=Gale|first7=Rowena|last8=Hoare|first8=Peter G.|last9=Larkin|first9=Nigel R.|last10=Lewis|first10=Mark D.|last11=Karloukovski|first11=Vassil|date=2010|title=Early Pleistocene human occupation at the edge of the boreal zone in northwest Europe|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09117|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=466|issue=7303|pages=229–233|doi=10.1038/nature09117|issn=1476-4687}}</ref> * c. '''800,000''' BC ** [[Happisburgh archaeology|Happisburgh]] early flint workings; footprints. * c. '''700,000''' BC ** [[Pakefield]] early flint workings. * c. '''500,000''' BC ** [[Eartham Pit, Boxgrove]] the oldest known human remains found in Britain. * c. '''250,000''' BC ** [[Swanscombe Man]] (actually a woman), the second oldest known human remains found in Britain.<ref name=CBH/> * c. '''180,000''' BC ** [[English Channel]] forms, separating Britain from the mainland.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Gupta |first=Sanjeev |author2=Jenny S. Collier |author3=Andy Palmer-Felgate |author4=Graeme Potter |year=2007 |title=Catastrophic flooding origin of shelf valley systems in the English Channel |journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume=448 |issue=7151 |pages=342–345 |doi=10.1038/nature06018 |url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7151/full/nature06018.html |access-date=2007-07-18 |pmid=17637667 |bibcode=2007Natur.448..342G|s2cid=4408290 }}</ref> * c. '''26,000''' BC ** Cave-dwelling [[Upper Paleolithic]] peoples in Britain.<ref name=CBH/> * c. '''10,000''' BC ** Last [[Ice Age]] ends.<ref name=CBH/> * c. '''8300''' BC ** [[Mesolithic]] period begins.<ref name=CBH/>