What is the name of the natives of England?

Answer 1

The Celts were England's original natives. They made the mistake of hiring Anglo-Saxon mercenaries from Germany during the Dark Ages to ward off marauding Vikings. The Anglo-Saxons liked what they saw, moved in, and took over, driving the Celts into Cornwall and Wales. The legendary King Arthur was probably a Celtic chief who battled the Anglo-Saxon invaders. Later, the Anglo-Saxons were overrun by the Normans who were essentially French-speaking Norse, the descendants of Vikings who had settled Normandy in France.

Answer 2

Homo Erectus man about 700,000 years ago when England was part of the continent before various Ice ages. The first recognisable group would have been the Celts around the 3rd century BC. The Celts (Britons:- P-Celtic or Brythonic) - came to be displaced/subsumed by the invasions of Angles/Saxons/Jutes/Vikings. The major grouping recognised as the term Anglo-Saxon today.

Answer 3

These were the Celts, and the Romano-British, persons who were the descendants of mixed marriages between native Celts and the occupying Romans (there was a sizeable Roman civilian population living in Britain at the time of the Roman Empire, it wasn't just confined to the military). In the far North of Scotland there were a seperate race of people known as the Picts, but these were wiped out by the Scottish Gaelic tribes during the first Millenium.

Answer 4

The true natives of England were red haired and green eyed hunter gatherers, with a smaller number of blondes amongst them. These natives in Southern England probably originated from France and had come across the English channel whereas in Northern England they probably came from across the North Sea, which was dry land for a period after the ice age and traversable from as far away as Scandinavia. Together these native peoples probably numbered only a few tens of thousand as simple hunting could not have supported a larger population in England.

But, the people who lived in England before the Anglo-Saxon invasions were largely descended from much later invaders/colonizers so were not strictly speaking natives at all. They were definitely not the first peoples of England.

Most of this pre-Saxon population were descended from Neolithic farmers who came up the Danube and Rhine rivers from the southern Balkans and originally started their journey from the Near East.

DNA studies of some these early Western European farmers show they had much more genetic similarity to the people of present day Turkey and to a lesser extent to the people of Syria than to the native peoples of Western Europe who they came to live amongst.

These later peoples of Western Europe were darker than the natives were, probably slightly middle-eastern in appearance, with black hair and brown eyes, much like how white people in England look today. They looked quite different to the original native inhabitants.

After the Neolithic settlers England was colonised by many waves of different peoples. The Anglo-saxons probably resembled the original native peoples more closely, in terms of physical appearance or phenotype at least, than most of the many other earlier invaders of England, such as the Celts or the Romans who looked more Middle-Eastern.

The Iron age Celts and Romans were just two of the most recent groups of peoples who settled in England before the Anglo-Saxons arrived. Their culture was not native as they were not primarily hunters.

You could even argue that the native people of England were actually the Neanderthals as they were probably the first hominids to set up home in England, though they did go extinct naturally, long before the first modern humans arrived in England.

Answer 5

The first ever native people in England were the Celts,the people whom ae native today are just known as English or British