England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Palaeolithic period, about 40,000 years ago.
England . 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 Paleolithic . 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 .