The earliest known inhabitants of the Isle of Man have been identified as Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers from 7000 BC, by which time the climate had improved enough from earlier Ice Age conditions to allow subsistence. They arrived in the transitional period and the beginning of agriculture in the Middle East.
By 4000 BC people on the Isle of Man had became farmers.
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The arrival of the Celts around 200 BC was a most important event in the island’s history. Isle of Man was never incorporated into the Roman Empire, but the island was noted in Greek and Roman Accounts. Around the 5th century Christianity arrived with monks from Ireland.
The Norseman broke as raiders into the Celtic Christian community of the island in 798 and by about a century later there are signs that Norse farming colonists or their children were receiving Christian burial in graveyards adjacent to keeills (churches). The Isle of Man became a ‘Viking flair’ form which attacks were launched on the neighboring coasts.
Scottish kings fought the Viking Norse on Man and the surrounding islands, and in 1265 what was known as the Kingdom of Man and the Isles was transferred to Alexander II of Scotland.
Ancient history of Isle of Man
