Prehistoric settlers in Scotland similar to first peoples of North America or Australia...

Culture24 ^ | April 4, 2015 | editors

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Situated on the eastern coast of the county, the Yarrows and Watenan area is one of the richest concentrations of well-preserved historical and archaeological remains of all periods in northern mainland Britain.

The absence of industrial-scale agriculture in the area has ensured the survival of important archaeological and historical monuments together with the spaces – now fossil landscapes – in which they were built.

In 1985, a survey of the area recorded 240 sites. Over the last few years, evidence for Mesolithic activity has been uncovered on the Thrumster Estate by Islay MacLeod...

Mesolithic settlers in Caithness had lifestyles comparable with the first peoples of North America or Australia and probably burned off areas of woodland to provide improved grazing grounds, into which the larger land mammals would concentrate and could be hunted more efficiently...

In general, it is believed that their population numbers were small, that they lived in small communities – possibly made up of extended families – and that the communities occupied relatively large territories around which they moved seasonally to exploit the diffuse food resources of Scotland.

There is a similarly extensive, and at times intemperate, literature on the transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic. Opinions range from the extermination and replacement of Mesolithic populations by Neolithic farmers to their peaceful assimilation into the new regime.

For some archaeologists there was a more or less instant transition from Meso to Neo, while for others the transition occurred over a protracted period with complex interactions between the both periods and their peoples.

These discussions, or arguments, also depend on the vehicle for the introduction of the Neolithic: was it a wave of new settlers or did the knowledge of farming arrive with only a few new people – or did it evolve spontaneously?”

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Full title, "Prehistoric settlers in Scotland similar to first peoples of North America or Australia, new book reveals".

Camster Round with Camster Long in the background -- © Andy Heald / John Barber

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[Wuli]

The title is wrong.

ACTUALLY

What the article says is NOT that the “Prehistoric settlers in Scotland similar to first peoples of North America or Australia”.

What the article says is that THEY LIVED IN SIMILAR FASHION to what early colonists observed about native Americans (no stone structures; likely burned off some tree growth creating more pastures where animals would graze, and on the pastures were easier to hunt, and other aspects).

Living similarly is not the same as the people themselves being “similar”, as in (what the phrase implies), physically - stature and other identifiable differences in physical features, or culturally - same stylistic versions of items the peoples made.