Page 9 - SYTYGIB Prehistoric Times

And while you’re scratching your little hairy headbox over that, let’s throw this into the mix: experts these days don’t really use the word ‘prehistory’. Instead, they talk about ‘ancient peoples’ and ‘deep history’. But just to keep things nice and simple for you, let’s stick to prehistoric chat for the time being.
Humans probably first came to Europe around one million years ago. Back then trains and aeroplanes were quite unreliable – you could sometimes be waiting several hundred thousand years for one to turn up – so people would have spread into new areas on foot over a very long time.
I´m just nipping out
for a stroll. How long
will you be? Around 20
years.
The climate during the prehistoric period played a huge part in the lives of humans. And we’re not talking about a bit of drizzle meaning they had to make umbrellas out of sticks and leaves. This was EXTrEmE StUfF!
There were several Ice Ages, which left vast areas of the world covered in ice. For example, Scotland was almost permanently under a layer
of ice 1.5 kilometres deep, making it uninhabitable for early humans, even if they had rEaLlY good anoraks and very big snow shovels.
When things warmed up and the ice melted, early humans returned to the areas that had been a little on the chilly side to hunt animals and forage for berries and nuts in the trees and bushes that were starting to grow again.
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What is prehistory and the deep past?