The People of the Iron Age Britain
As we lived, countless years passed unnoticeably. Country's customs and traditions changed and even history repeated itself. There is also the presence of land occupation, adaptation of religious beliefs and sometimes the conflict between continents that separates one part away from another. People evolve from anywhere in the world. Evolution is the process of changing from one stage to another, the coming out from one place to another leaving the old practice and situation to a new and current one. This is what Britain was, before it became the United Kingdom.
Britain is a country and sovereign state that can be found between the Northwest of Europe and Ireland. Different races descended and arrived in Britain from nearby European places, travelling by land or by sea. The occurrence of migration follows the changes and advancement of geographical and landscape influence. This is what we called the human occupation. Before the so called Iron Age, Britain had been a product of prehistoric periods over many years ago. Some evidence was discovered during the lower, middle and the upper Paleolithic periods. The evolution of Mesolithic and Neolithic periods where the ice age finally ended, forests generally expanded resulting in farming and pottery of the native population.
Following the prehistoric periods, came the Iberian Beaker culture. The skill of refining a metal, discoveries of copper and tin gave them the chance to replace the stone into bronze. Later, the disruption of Bronze culture collapsed indicating invasion throughout the entire Mediterranean. There was an attempt to adopt the Iron Age in Britain.
New influential ideas had been acquired, slowly changing the Bronze Age into a more advanced and economically oriented stage of living. The people of the Iron Age brought about knowledge on land exploitation and settlements, building of structures and indication of borders to protect owned areas. Besides, new weapons had been developed and traders were getting wiser so that they would start visiting Britain to look for minerals in exchange for Mediterranean products. The changes in climate triggered the people to concentrate on land farming, settling permanently, and making the nation more modernised. The evolution of inhabitants evidently shows a barrier in linguistic indifference. Even before the Iron Age, language had been a problem resulting almost in the isolation of Britain from continental changes. People during this time could interact rapidly within same language type evolving around. Reportedly, there were discoveries of swords and weapons that were traditionally marked as British, nowadays a gift, giving symbols for the native people. Population became a little problem because of the immersions of regional identities.
The people of the Iron Age gave way to kingdoms ruled by powerful dynasties that ran their own type of government giving hub to political, religious and commercial matters. In this context, the Iron Age shows development on towns and centres all over Britain. Hill forts are among the impressive structures made by the people during the Iron Age.
Iron Age people seemed to have been discovered by the Archaeologist to have attempted to vary on their diets, improve their homes and follow existing fashions. Indications of wealth and many defensive structures were reused by later cultures.
Original Authors: Phil Post
Edit Update Authors: M.Harris
Updated On: 12/05/2008
