Who Were The First People In Britain???

Question

Was it the celtics???

Answer 1

The 'Celts' were a Germanic/Gallic tribe who settled in Ireland,Scotland and Wales around the time between the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman times of England
Before them were the Picts who were forced north to what we now know as Scotland by the Anglo-Saxons
The Scots were originaly from Ireland but eventualy overcame the Picts and called the land Scotland

So the simple answer is -Picts in the mainland; Scots in Ireland

....And the Celtics are a football tribe not an historical one lol

Answer 2

First People In Britain

Answer 3

Celtic tribes appear to have been the earliest occupants of the British Isles. When the Romans came, they fought some of them, but made peace with others, and there was certainly intermarriage between Romans and native Britons.

After the Romans left, Anglo-Saxon settlers mostly pushed the Celts into the mountains of Wales and the moors of Cornwall. The Scots and Irish were never conquered by the Romans so there is probably a lot of Celtic DNA still flourishing among their descendants!

Answer 4

It's a common misconception that the first people in Britain were the Celts. Prior to the Celtic period there were peoples living in Britain. The oldest burial of a human found in Britain are the "Red lady" of Paviland that date back around 29,000 years (well into the ice age). These people were probably itinerant, following the herds of migrating animals as the ice sheets seasonally retreated. (the UK was at this time still attached to mainland Europe by a land bridge)
Prior to that there are the Neanderthal remains (teeth) from Pontnewydd cave, that date back 230,000 years.

Answer 5

Not the Celts. If you define Celts as Indo-European-speaking people associated with material artifacts now categorized as Hallstatt and La Tene cultures, then they originated in the Iron Age. But there were people in Britain before then. The megalithic monuments of Britain and Ireland are from Neolithic times. The Picts, Gaels, and Scots may be descended from those Neolithic people (DNA research is ongoing), but no Celtic cultural artifacts are associated with the Neolithic people, and there is no way to know what language was spoken back then.

And if you count Neanderthals as human, then human occupation of Britain goes back even further. But Neanderthals were not Homo Sapiens, so maybe they don't count.

Answer 6

No.
paleolithic & mesolithic man crossing what was then a land bridge between Europe & Britain. Their dna is still found in most of the population!
Then neolithic farmers who changed the way of life by introducing agriculture. They raised great stone tombs to house their dead & began the monuments such as Avebury & Stonehenge.
In the bronze age, there may have been a small incursion of people from germany/Switzerland, known as the Beaker people. They brought early metalwork & were fierce archers. They adopted many stone circles as their own and continued to build & expand them. There was also trade and possibly the odd immigrant from places like Brittany.
the celts traitionally came from Europe in about 400 BC, but again, we are probably not talking about hundreds of thousands of people here,which is why the 'aboriginal' strains of dna are still prevalent. To the Romans, coming in later, they would have just been regarded as all barbarian 'celts', no matter whether descended from a hunter gather,farmer,beaker-man or a more recent European celt.

Answer 7

The Celts were not the first people to settle in Britain. There were people living here long, long before the Clets (if there were such) were ever about. The earliest evidence of human life in these islands dates back 80,000 years, such evidence having recently been found in crumbling cliffs on the East Anglian coast. But before that discovery we knew of Swanscombe Man dating back 8000 years. These neolithic people were not Celts and were the people responsible for the great henges such as Stonehenge.

Answer 8

Indeed, the Celts (who originated in northern Iberia (Spain) were not the original inhabitants of the UK. The original inhabitants built Stonehenge and left the many barrows and standing stones in western England (think, Avebury henge). The origin of these folks is still not entirely clear; but they arrived thousands of years before the first Celt settlers. The celts probably intermarried with them and absorbed their culture over the centuries.

Answer 9

The first people to arrive in Britain were indeed the Celts and their descendants are alive and well and living mostly in Cornwall and Wales today.

The Oxford University are carrying out a major DNA study in Wales and Cornwall and they have found many thousands of people whos DNA indicates they have an ancestory going back for 12,000 years.

The Celts of Britain are descended from those folk who first arrived after the last ice age when it was safe to do so and when the southern half of Britain was probably then free of ice for most of the year.

Answer 10

no, there were people here long before the Celts - they walked over the land that is now under the North Sea.....