Dashed line · a route people might take
Tap a person to follow their work. Try the Map view to spot useful places.
Travel through time
Each part of this slider covers a different number of years. The Old Stone Age lasted hundreds of thousands of years. This explorer starts near its end.
About the model and the real evidence
The valley and its people are imagined. Move the big slider to see different generations. People across Britain changed how they lived at different times. The map keeps the river and hills in the same places so you can compare how people use them. Real coastlines, rivers and forests also changed.
The dates on the slider are approximate. Seasons and daily activities are examples of what might happen. The Finds tab uses drawings of types of evidence. The shelters and homes show how some buildings might have looked, based on evidence such as holes left by timber posts.
- Historic England · Stone Age to Iron Age timeline
- Historic Environment Scotland · Skara Brae
- English Heritage · Stonehenge through time
- English Heritage · Prehistoric buildings
- Hampshire County Council · Danebury Hillfort
- Historic England · The Must Farm wheel
- Cambridge University Press · An early dog at Star Carr
- British Museum · Prehistoric Britain
- Nantwich Museum · The River Weaver
