# Britain is resettled after the last Ice Age (-10000)

URL: https://english-history.com/timeline/-10000-britain-is-resettled-after-the-last-ice-age
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As the climate warmed, Mesolithic hunter-gatherers moved back into Britain and established seasonal communities. Within the broader Prehistoric Britain period, communities moved from hunter-gatherer lifeways toward farming, monument building, metalworking and increasingly complex regional societies. This event is placed at c. 10,000 BCE in the chronology so it can be read alongside the political, military, social and cultural changes around it. This repopulation created the human foundation from which later prehistoric societies developed.

## Why it matters
This repopulation created the human foundation from which later prehistoric societies developed.

Ruler at the time: [Prehistoric Britain](https://english-history.com/rulers/prehistoric-britain)

## Sources
- [Wikipedia topic lookup — Britain is resettled after the last Ice Age](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Britain+is+resettled+after+the+last+Ice+Age&go=Go)
- [Encyclopaedia Britannica topic lookup — Britain is resettled after the last Ice Age](https://www.britannica.com/search?query=Britain+is+resettled+after+the+last+Ice+Age)
- [Wikipedia — Timeline of British history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_British_history_%28before_1000%29)
- [Encyclopaedia Britannica — prehistoric Britain topic search](https://www.britannica.com/search?query=prehistoric%20Britain)