Concetti Chiave
- The Iberians were the first inhabitants of Great Britain, settling between 3000 and 2000 b.C.
- They were short, robust, with dark skin and black eyes, living a primitive lifestyle focused on fishing and hunting.
- Their homes were wooden huts arranged in a circular layout with a sacred center, similar to Stonehenge.
- Lacking an alphabet, they expressed themselves through graffiti depicting hunting scenes.
- Their polytheistic religion was pagan, pantheistic, and fetishistic, worshipping nature and using blue body paint in rituals.
Iberians
They were the first inhabitants of Great Britain belonged to the Indo-European branch and they settled in Britain between 3000 and 2000 b.C. About their body we can say that they were very short, hairy and robust with black eyes, a dark skin and also hairy.They were very primitive, in fact they lived on fishing and hunting and they picked berries and roots. Their houses were wooden huts, grouped according by a circular plant that had a sacred area in the middle and surrounded by a ditch and a henge; from here the famous stone temple called Stonehenge, that has a circular plant and a central sacred area. They had no culture because they hadn’t an alphabet but, anyway, they used to draw Graffiti that showed hunting scenes; they had a polytheistic religion that was pagan, pantheistic and fetishistic: in the sense that they worshipped all the elements of the nature, moreover they made dances around a totem or a fetish painting their bodies with blue, a holy colour for them because represented the sky they worshipped.