I- PREHISTORY OF WALES

The first habitants the most significant evidence of the presence in Wales of Palaeolithic is the burial discovered in Paviland Défoncent Gower.

The Neolithic Stone Age: Mesolithic communities lived by going hunting and by gathering, the evidence of the existence in Wales is supported by the agricultureIt are Neolithic people who cut clearings for their harvests by using stone instruments.

The Bronze Age: during the Bronze Age on approximately 2400 BC, instruments in metal became more and more available. Traditionally, we considered that the users in metal of the Bronze Age were migrants in Great Britain. The working standard of metals of Bronze Age could be strangely high. Particularly magnificent is the course, discovered in the Mold in 1833; he was beaten by a simple golden nugget. The aspect most fascinating of Bronze Age Wales is the link between Mountains Preseli and Downs de Wiltshire

The Iron Age: The first bare irons object in Wales is a sword made in approximately 600 BC who had been thrown in waters of Llyn Fawr over Rhondda. The ore was discovered; an almost inexhaustible source for the realization of instruments, weapons and equipment was available

The Celts: Great Britain became Celtic speaking, make him whom he made is of the central importance in the history of Wales. Brythonic evolved in the Welsh and the existence of the Welsh language would exist since one thousand five hundred years and more, one of the définissantes characteristics of people of Wales.

II - the middle Ages

In the VIth century, the Celts of the island of Great Britain had to avoid the Anglo-Saxon invaders and found refuge in the Welsh mountains where, in time, they united with the natives, among whom Irish Celts, and managed to keep their independence towards the Saxon conquerors. The Welsh people resisted triumphantly and their language prospered in the official acts and the common law, in particular in courts of justice and