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Stone Age Man
in Britain
The British Isles were not always the green and pleasant land in 
which people live today. Many thousands of years ago they were not even 
islands, and England was joined to France by dry land.
In those far-off times no one lived there because the land was covered 
with ice hundreds of feet thick. Then slowly the climate became warmer 
and the ice melted, leaving the bare rock underneath. Many hundreds of 
years passed before the land was fit for men to live. The earliest man 
ever to live there came across the dry land from France. Those men and 
women were very different from the men and women today. Those people 
were able to talk and think though only in a very simple way. They 
knew how to make some sort of clothes for themselves out of the skins 
of animals. But they had not yet learned how to build even the simplest 
houses. They lived in caves and knew how to make fire, probably by 
rubbing dry sticks together. They had no iron or steel knives. Nor had 
they any pottery.
About six or seven thousand years ago, some new people came across 
the dry land into England. We call them Neolithic people and we know 
that they were much more intelligent than the men who lived in caves. 
The cave man’s brain was undeveloped. The Neolithic men were more 
clever. When they saw things happening they wanted to know why they 
happened. This desire to find out why things happened was the beginning 
of all civilization. Those people built huts, used bows and arrows to hunt; 
they began to use canoes to travel and simple tools. Those people were 
farmers, too, and they began to grow some sort of corn out of which 


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they made bread and they discovered how to make pottery. They were 
not savages. They were the dim beginnings of the modern civilization in 
which all of us live. We call them Stone Age men! We give them this 
name because they made their tools and weapons of flint.


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