The people who first arrived in are called 'Stone Age' because they made and used only stone, wood and bone tools. They knew nothing of metals. However, this does not mean that they were stupid. Far from it. They painted in caves, made burial sites of great complexity and so on.
The earliest people (who belong to the time called the Palaeolithic and the Mesolithic) numbered probably no more than a few thousand over the whole of Britain, so they could get their food by hunting and gathering. But then something began to change…
