It was only during the Copper Age (3,500–2,000 BC) that skin color in Britain became more diverse, with a 50/50 split between dark and light-skinned people. By the Bronze Age (2,000–500 BC ...

Even Athens, by far the largest of all city-states, only contained an estimated population of about 200,000 people in the year 500 BC. Many of these people would have lived not in the city but in ...