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| c. 31,000 years ago |
| | | Rhinoceroses, lions and mammoth feature on the walls of the Chauvet cave, in southern France | |
|  | Rhinoceros in the Chauvet cave
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| c. 4000 BC |
| | | A passage grave with a superb corbelled dome is constructed on the Île Longue off the southern coast of Brittany | |
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| c. 2500 BC |
| | | A small neolithic community builds a village at Skara Brae in the Orkneys, of stone houses with built-in stone furniture | |
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| c. 2500 BC |
| | | A superb passage grave is built at Newgrange in Ireland | |
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| c. 2500 BC |
| | | At Stonehenge, constructed and altered over many centuries, the largest stones are put in place | |
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| c. 2200 BC |
| | | A ring of large standing stones is raised in England at Avebury, now a village in Wiltshire | |
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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | The Beaker people arrive in Britain, bringing several desirable commodities - including horses, alcohol and bronze | |
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| c. from 1750 BC |
| | | Over many centuries Indo-European tribes (Greeks, Germans, Balts, Italics, Celts) move into new territories throughout western Europe | |
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| c. 500 BC |
| | | The Celts, moving west from central Europe, settle in France and northern Spain | |
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| c. 310 BC |
| | | Pytheas, a Greek explorer, sails up the west coast of Britain and finds beyond it a more northerly land which he calls Thule | |
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