The grey seal live in murky waters and are capable of locating their prey thanks to their large eyes. Their ears are also highly sensitive which allows them to detect their prey quickly. The grey scales are mostly found in the northeast Atlantic Ocean and mostly live in the calm waters of this ocean and the rocky shores.
The wood mouse is a small random that is characterized by a brown fur, protruding eyes, a long tail and huge eyes. The wood mouse is an indigenous animal of the United Kingdom, and it is mostly found throughout the Isles of British and on other smaller islands.
This species is known to feed on green plant seeds and fruits primarily. The wood mouse mostly lives in underground burrows as they are continually being preyed by foxes, weasels, and domestic cats. The European Hedgehogs are the only spiky animals found in the United Kingdom. This animal has a perfect sense of smell and hearing but lacks good eyesight. The European Hedgehogs are known to hibernate during winter and become active during summer. They are found in the woodland and the suburban areas all over Europe.
The European Hedgehogs are omnivores with their diet mostly comprising of worms, insects, slugs, frogs, birds, and rodents. Fin whales are found existing on all the major oceans and seas and are described as the second largest whales after the blue whales. The fin whales classified as native animals of the United Kingdom because they have existed in the North Pacific Ocean for millions of years.
Their handaxes and other stone tools have been found at several sites around Britain. Microscopic analysis shows that tool marks on animal bones lay beneath gnawing marks inflicted by wolves and hyenas. The people at Boxgrove probably had to butcher the animal carcasses while defending them from scavenging predators. Adult male Homo heidelbergensis reconstructed from fossil remains dated to ,, years ago, uncovered at Petralona, Greece.
Not long after humans were living at Boxgrove, the climate deteriorated. Signs of humans in Britain began to fade and disappear. Of all the glacial periods Britain went through in the last million years, the one around , years ago - known as the Anglian glaciation - was the most extreme. Human survival in Britain became impossible. The absence of humans lasted for many millennia. We know early Neanderthals were in Britain about , years ago thanks to the discovery of the skull of a young woman from Swanscombe, Kent.
They returned to Britain many times between then and 50, years ago, and perhaps even later. During this time the climate regularly switched between warm and cold. Neanderthals learned to adapt and survive by exploiting natural resources, although they were beaten back from Britain several times when the climate was particularly harsh and food scarce.
Undoubtedly intelligent, Neanderthals were innovative toolmakers. Injuries found on their prey tell us that they were brave and skilful hunters. Neanderthals probably travelled across the vast prairies of ancient Britain following herds of large animals such as mammoths to seasonal hunting grounds. No human remains or tools have been found from Britain for the period of , to 60, years ago, although we know Neanderthals thrived elsewhere in Europe during this time.
At first it was just too cold this far north. Then, when temperatures rose, so did sea levels. Britain was cut off from the mainland before Neanderthals could return. Museum Researcher Silvia Bello explains, 'Absence of evidence is, of course, not evidence of absence.
But archaeologists have been excavating for more than years and there is no evidence of humans from this time. No tools, no human remains, no marks from butchery - no trace. Adult female Neanderthal reconstructed from approximately 50,year-old fossil remains unearthed at Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar. Neanderthals did eventually make it back to Britain, arriving via Doggerland - a landscape now beneath the North Sea.
The vast grassland plains supported herds of woolly mammoth, woolly rhino and reindeer as well as predatory wolves and hyenas. The lack of trees presented additional challenges, such as a shortage of wood for fuel and to use as shafts for their stone tools.
The Parisi lived in East Yorkshire. They were a small, but distinctive group of people who farmed the chalk hills of the Yorkshire Wolds. The Parisi share their name with the people who lived in France around what is today Paris although whether both tribes shared strong links is hotly debated.
The British Parisi are known for their unusual 'chariot-burials' and cemeteries. Unlike other people living in Britain between about and BC, the people in East Yorkshire buried their dead in large cemeteries.
This was much like the way many peoples in France and Germany buried their dead at the same time. However, in other respects, the East Yorkshire Parisi lived in British style houses, wore British style ornaments and used British style pottery. At the time of the Romans, the Parisi had stopped burying they dead in this unusual way. However, the carried on other distinctive styles of life and remained separate from their large, powerful neighbours, the Brigantes. After the Roman Conquest they were made into their own small civitas with their capital at Petuaria modern Brough on Humber.
The Cornovii are a surprisingly obscure tribe, given that they lay well within the boundaries of the Roman province and their civitas capital, Wroxeter, was one of the largest in Britain. They share their name with a Caledonian tribe who lived in the far north of Scotland. The name probably means 'people of the horn'. There is no reason to think that this group shared any common ancestry with the group in Caithness.
Many tribes or peoples in Europe at the time of the Roman Conquest shared similar names. This might be because these tribes had contacts with each other. But it is just as likely to be a coincidence, as people used similar types of names for themselves such as 'the people of the mountains' or 'the brave people' etc.
The Cornovii never issued coinage and before the Roman Conquest left little evidence to recognise them. They probably lived in what are today the modern counties of Staffordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire. The Deceangli , the Ordovices and the Silures were the three main tribe groups who lived in the mountains of what is today called Wales. However, in prehistory Wales, England and Scotland did not exist in anyway as distinctive entities in the ways they have done so for the last years.
The Deceangli were the peoples of what is today north Wales and probably included the peoples who lived on the Isle of Anglesey. The Romans considered Anglesey, or Mona as they and the locals at the time called it, as a stronghold of the Druids. Because the Druids played an important role in encouraging the recently conquered Britons to resist the Roman Conquers, the Roman army specifically targeted Anglesey for destruction. On the eve of Boudicca's revolt in what is today East Anglia, the Roman Army has only just completed the long and difficult task of conquering the tribes living in the Welsh Mountains.
The final episode of that conquest was the invasion of Anglesey and the slaughter of the Druids there. This group covered much of the mountains and valleys of what is today mid-Wales.
They were the northern neighbours of the Silures and the Southern neighbours of the Degeangli. Like the Silures and Degeangli , these peoples lived in small farms, often defended against attack. After the emperor Claudius invaded southern England in AD 43, one of the main leaders of the Britons, called Caratacus escaped to the Ordovices and the Silures. They were stirred into rebellion by Caratacus and for a long time successfully resisted the Romans.
The Roman general Agricola only finally defeated the Ordovices in The tribe was incorporated into Britannia and became a civitas an administrative district. This large tribe appears to have been created only shortly before the Roman Conquest of Britain. It offered no resistance to the Romans and was quickly turned into a civitas an administrative district equivalent to a modern county with its capital at the city of Leicester.
The Corieltauvi combined groups of people living in what is today most of the East Midlands Lincolnshire. Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Northamptonshire. Before about 50 to 1 BC, archaeological evidence suggests two different groups or tribes lived in this region.
One lived in what is today Lincolnshire, the other in what is today Northamptonshire. Both areas were different to each other and were important centres of population and economy in the period c. The Corieltauvi are known from their coins that are found throughout the East Midlands. This group appears to have been a new federation that united earlier different groups. This was a region were people lived in villages, and some times larger settlements.
Leicester was certainly an important large settlement before the Roman Conquest, as were a number of large settlements in Lincolnshire, such as Dragonby and Old Sleaford. This was another tribe that issued coins before the Roman Conquest. Their coins and other archaeological evidence shows that the tribe's territory was in the modern counties of Norfolk and parts of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. They appear to have been a wealthy and powerful group of tribes between and 50 BC.
From their territory come the finest hoards of gold treasure found in Iron Age Britain; the Snettisham torcs. Other hoards of elaborately decorated bronze chariot fittings point to a love of conspicuous display by the nobles of the Iceni.
This tribe also shunned contacts with the Roman world and the changes they brought with them that characterised the life styles of Catuvellauni and Trinovantes at this time. The Iceni had important religious centres at Snettisham and at Thetford. But when they were made into Roman Civitas, the Romans did not choose either of these centres, but the settlement at Caistor, near what is today Norwich. Was this because the Iceni led the most successful revolt against Roman rule in the history of Roman Britain?
Their king Prasutagus became a client-king of Rome. But on his death the kingdom was incorporated into the Roman province and together with other abuses led to the Icenian revolt led by Prasutagus' widow, Queen Boudicca. These were the people who lived in the fertile lands of Pembrokeshire and much of Carmarthenshire in southwest Wales. They lived in small farms scattered across the countryside and shared many features of their lives with their neighbours across the Bristol Channel in Devon and Cornwall.
They were friendly towards the Romans and quickly adapted to Roman rule, unlike their more warlike and scattered neighbours in the mountains of Wales; the Silures and the Ordovices. Because of this the Demetae did not need to be intensively garrisoned by the Roman army, except along their eastern border, which may have been to protect them from their hostile neighbours, the Silures. The tribe was incorporated into the province of Britannia and became a civitas an administrative unit, or county, within the Roman province.
The capital of the Roman civitas was at Carmarthen Moridundum Demetarum. The Catuvellauni were the tribe that lived in the modern counties of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and southern Cambridgeshire.
Their territory also probably included tribes in what is today Buckinghamshire and parts of Oxfordshire. The first Bible printed in the New World was actually a translation into the language of the Native American people of the Algonquin, suggesting that the dialogues between the colonists and Native Americans were not just political or practical in nature, but also spiritual. The primary religion of the New England colonies was the strict Puritan Christianity originally brought to the Massachusetts Bay colony by ships like the Mayflower , but as the colonies grew and changed, some of the colonists began to move away from that base.
So too did views on the Native Americans who shared their land. A famous example of this is Roger Williams, whose rebellion against the religious powers-that-be led him to create the colony of Rhode Island. Williams held the unorthodox view that the colonists had no right to occupy land without purchasing it from the Native American peoples living there. Over time, however, relations between the now-established colonies and the local peoples deteriorated.
Some of the problems were unintentionally introduced by the colonists, like smallpox and other diseases that the English settlers had unwittingly brought over on their ships. Although the colonists suffered diseases of their own early on, they were largely immune to the microbes they brought over to the New World.
The local Native American populations, however, had no such immunity to diseases like smallpox, tuberculosis, measles, cholera, and the bubonic plague. In , the government of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts executed three members of the Wampanoag people.
The Wampanoag leader, Philip also known as Metacom retaliated by leading the Wampanoags and a group of other peoples including the Nipmuc, Pocumtuc, and Narragansett. Other peoples, including the Mohegans and Mohawks, fought the uprising with the English colonists. The war lasted 14 months, ending in late after much of the Native American opposition had been destroyed by the colonial militias and their Native American allies.
Ultimately, a treaty was signed in April , ending the conflict. With such heavy casualties on both sides, this war is considered one of the deadliest conflicts in American history. Both sides experienced devastating losses, with the Native American population losing thousands of people to war, illness, slavery, or fleeing to other regions. More than colonists died in the course of the conflict, with dozens of settlements destroyed.
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