Who were the earliest inhabitants of the island of england?

Question

Who were the earliest inhabitants of the island of england?

Answer 1

The island was first inhabited by people who crossed over the land bridge from the European mainland, but not too much is known about them. Its Iron Age inhabitants are known as the Britons, a group speaking a Celtic language, and most of it  was conquered to become the Ancient Roman province of Britannia.

Answer 2

Stone Age Hunter-gatherers eventually gave way to farmers and permanent settlements, with advanced Megalithic cultures coming in some 4,000 years ago. It was replaced around 1,500 years later by Celtic tribes migrating from continental western Europe, mainly from France. These tribes were known collectively as "Britons"—a name bestowed by Phoenician traders and an indication of how, even at this early date, the island was part of a Europe-wide Trading Network .

Answer 3

Britain ws inhabited prior to the last Ice age but the inhabitants were not 'modern' humans. They vanished with the ice age.

Modern man appeared when the ice began to recede again,crossing the land bridge that once attacted Britain to the continent. Most of them came from the mountain fastnesses of the Basque region of france/Spain, and a large amount of modern Britons STILL have dna from these early settlers.

  Then came the Neolithic farmers who had origins in the near east. They brought agriculture and were megalith builders . Their dna is also still  very prevalent in the british isles.

  At one time it was believed that an 'invasion' of celts occurred about 500 BC heralding the Iron Age, but neither the archaeology or the genetics bear this out. (The celts were traditionally from central Europe, but dna taken from bones in an ancient European celtic cemetary did NOT match that of people in the supposedly celtic areas of Ireland,Wales & Scotland.)

  It is now believe the 'celtic' languages were spoken in Britain as long as 4 or 5 thousand years ago,and that only a very few celtic  people (such as the Belgae) arrived from the continent in the Iron Age.

Answer 4

England is not an island .

It is part of the island of Great Britain which it shares with Scotland and Wales