England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Palaeolithic period, about 40,000 years ago.
The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Palaeolithic period , but takes its name from the Angles , one of the Germanic tribes who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries .	Upper Palaeolithic	Upper Palaeolithic	Angles	Angles	Germanic	Germanic peoples
Very broadly , it dates to between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago , roughly coinciding with the appearance of behavioral modernity and before the advent of agriculture .	10,000	9th millennium BCE	behavioral modernity	behavioral modernity	agriculture	agriculture
