• _{The Paleolithic Period} 
• _{The Mesolithic Period}
• _{The Neolithic Period}

Palaeolithic people were nomadic. This means they were always moving with their families. They gathered food, firewood, and materials for tools, clothes and shelter, all from their surroundings. Their diet was made up mainly from animal meat, fruits and plants. The animals they ate included wild horse, red deer, arctic hare, reindeer, wild cattle, lynx and red fox. They used every part of the animal to help them live, the meat for food, fur and skin for clothes and bones for marrow and glue. Their discovery of fire also helped them stay warm, cook and frighten away dangerous animals. 

They lived in tribes, in small groups  formed by families, and they found refuge in caves where they would paint on the wall. These paintings were done with a mixture of charcoal, earth, animal fat and water. Look here are a few examples…truth is, its absolutely fascinating to think that these first paintings, these first artistic representations, were drawn thousands of years ago. Don't you think?

Both Paleolithic men and women wore animal skins which they had hunted previously and they used tools such as an ax and spears made out of stones, wood and bones which they themselves carved. With the passing of time, or rather centuries, these first human beings became more and more intelligent and they began to domesticate animals such as dogs, goats, sheep and pigs; they also began to cultivate plants which was then eaten. It is in these times, with the arrival of agriculture and farming, when everything changed, when man stopped being a nomad and becomes sedentary and the fist villages are made.

It was during the Neolithic that people started using pottery in Britain, although it had already been used in Greece for 2,500 years! Items made from pottery were used for cooking and storing food.