OLD STONE AGE (Palaeolithic) c.100,000 – 10,000 BC
During much of the Old Stone Age, a large area of Britain was affected by the advancing and retreating ice sheets, which formed the basic landscape we see today. People at this time were nomadic, living by hunting and fishing in a wet, cold, tundra environment similar to that of modern north Canada or Siberia.
The only evidence of human activity in the Milton Keynes area at this time is provided by flint hand axes, found mostly during gravel quarrying in the Bletchley area.
Old Stone Age Hand Ax
The same pits have also revealed evidence of the animals that were present at the time, and may have been hunted.
