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- Ireland's Neolithic inhabitants traced their origins to an expansion of people out of Anatolia (modern Turkey) around 6,000-7,000 years ago. This migration transformed Europe's way of life from one focused on hunting to one based on agriculture.
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The Mesolithic Period: Ireland’s Early Inhabitants Approximately 10,000 years ago, as the ice sheets retreated and gave way to a more hospitable environment, Ireland experienced its first human colonization.
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The Irish Iron Age has long been thought to begin around 500 BC and then continue until the early Christian era in Ireland, which brought some written records and therefore the end of prehistoric Ireland.
Jun 2, 2012 · Most experts think that the first people migrated to Ireland from Britain at the end of the last ice age. They would have arrived in simple boats, crossing from Scotland, which is only 12 miles away from the north of Ireland. The early people at Mountsandel lived as hunter-gatherers.
Mar 21, 2016 · Since the 1970s, the oldest evidence of human occupation in Ireland has been the hunter-gatherer settlement of Mount Sandel on the banks of the River Bann, County Londonderry, which...
During the Younger Dryas, sea levels continued to rise and no ice-free land bridge between Great Britain and Ireland ever returned. The earliest confirmed inhabitants of Ireland were Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, who arrived sometime around 7900 BCE.
Where Did the Early Irish Come From? For a long time, the myth of Irish history has been that the Irish are Celts. Many people still refer to Irish, Scottish, and Welsh as Celtic culture. The assumption has been that they were Celts who migrated from central Europe around 500BCE.
Dec 28, 2015 · Scientists have sequenced the first ancient human genomes from Ireland - throwing light on the genesis of Celtic populations.
