Fill in the Blanks British HistoryOnline version British History by Brian Strijbos 1 NEANDERTHALS IRON NEW STONE IRON 750 ICE BRONZE ICE ICE PRE - HISTORY . . . 130 , 000 years ago , lived in Britain . They are sort of the same as we humans are . Later , in the year 25 , 000 BC , Britain was covered in . We call this period the age . As soon the melted a new era appeared , the age in 12 , 000 BC . The stones were thrown away when copper began to become more popular . This age is what we call the age . The copper became scarcer and scarcer when men decided to use . This is the period when in the year BC the age started .