UK Countryside history - 11,000 BC
About 13,000 years ago the last ice age came to an end. As the snow and ice retreated the ground beneath was exposed. Initially the landscape was barren but increasingly supported life as the first colonising plants took hold. The landscape was similar to the tundra of the high arctic today.
- Population
A few hunter gatherers would have moved northwards as the ice sheets retreated.
At this point the UK was still attached to Europe and large parts of the
North Sea would have been low lying tundra.
- Crops
None
- Livestock
None
- Farming Systems
None
- Woodland & Hedges
None
- Social Economy
None
- Climate
Sub arctic gradually warming over the next 2000 years.
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