UK Countryside history - 10,000 BC
As the ice sheets withdrew the climate became warmer and the countryside
began to support the trees and shrubs that colonise bare and infertile ground.
The earliest to take up residence were birch, aspen and sallow. These were followed by hazel and pine.
- Population
Small numbers of hunter gatherers.
- Crops
None
- Livestock
None but large wild cattle, deer, boar, bears and wolves had all began to
take up residence.
- Farming Systems
The population lived by hunting and fishing.
- Woodland & Hedges
None
- Social Economy
Very little evidence is available for this period but generally hunting
groups were mobile and spent very little time in any one location.
- Climate
Still much colder than today but warming quite quickly around 8,500 BC encouraging
more widespread forestation.
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