Neolithic British Isles what language these early farming people spoke. These migrants brought new ideas, leading to a radical transformation of society and landscape that has been called the Neolithic Revolution. The Neolithic period in the British Isles was characterised by the adoption of agriculture and sedentary living. To make room for the new farmland, these early agricultural communities undertook mass deforestation across the islands, dramatically and permanently transforming the landscape. At the same time, new types of stone tools requiring more skill began to be produced; new technologies included polishing. The Neolithic also saw the construction of a wide variety of monuments
Neolithic and Bronze Age rock art in the British Isles the research into rock art has been undertaken by amateurs rather than professional archaeologists, to varying degrees of quality. In 1997, archaeologist Richard Bradley of the University of Reading published "Rock Art and the Prehistory of Atlantic Europe", the first study of such petroglyphs across Atlantic Europe. In 1999, Stan Beckensall published "British Prehistoric Rock Art", the first regional overview of the island's rock art. The purposes of Neolithic and Bronze Age petroglyphs in the British Isles have long been debated, with amateur rock art researcher Ronald Morris listing 104 different proposals that he had encountered, ranking them according to