Scotland's most ancient home found – at 14,000 years old

The Scotsman ^ | Apr. 10, 2009 | Jenny Haworth

[decimon]

AMATEUR archaeologists have uncovered evidence of Scotland's oldest human settlement, dating back 14,000 years. The team dug up tools that have been shown to date from the end of the last Ice Age.

It is the first time there has been proof that humans lived in Scotland during the upper paleolithic period.

[decimon]

On the rocks ping.

[fleagle]

Awesome. Scotland is an incredible country with a fascinating history. Thanks for posting.

[mfish13]

How warm was it back then? Did they need global warming?

[decimon]

Did they need global warming?

If this was at the end of the last ice age then yes.

[SunkenCiv]

· join list or digest · view topics · view or post blog · bookmark · post a topic ·
	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks decimon. Haggis I'd better ping the list. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
·Dogpile · Archaeologica · ArchaeoBlog · Archaeology · Biblical Archaeology Society · · Discover · Nat Geographic · Texas AM Anthro News · Yahoo Anthro & Archaeo · Google · · The Archaeology Channel · Excerpt, or Link only? · cgk's list of ping lists ·

[decimon]

Scotland is an incredible country with a fascinating history.

If I have it right then what was Scotland was then land-connected to what are now Ireland and France. Low sea levels.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks blam.

Shock discovery of 15th century skeletons in Aberdeen

[Mike Darancette]

Scotland must have been a bleak place 14,000 years ago.

[decimon]

Scotland must have been a bleak place 14,000 years ago.

Cold. Outside of the tropics, I imagine life was mostly survival.

[flowerplough]

“Scotland must have been a bleak place 14,000 years ago.”

Bleak 14,000 years ago, as compared to something-other-than-bleak now?

[shove_it]

"A technique used to fashion the blades known as "en eperon" made it clear they belonged to the upper paleolithic period."

Sounds like an early nine iron, or perhaps a sand wedge.

[stuartcr]

Like a lot of it of it stull is.

[flowerplough]

RE: Bleak

Clicked SunkenCiv’s 15th Century skelligan link, above, glanced over the article, and then noticed the adjacent list of small-story headlines:

“Union at odds with council over fortnightly bin collections,
Aberdeen to get fortnightly refuse collections,
Daycare closure provokes backlash against council,
Aberdeen man may have died from cold weather,
Closure-threatened factory plans to double sales,
Aberdeen City Council confirms 400 jobs to go,
BP launch investigation into helicopter crash”

I mean, except for the helicopter crash, and the use of “fortnightly”, those leads coulda come from my good, old, regressed, recessed, “rocks, rattlesnakes, and Republicans” north-central Pennsylvania home.

[blam]

"If I have it right then what was Scotland was then land-connected to what are now Ireland and France. Low sea levels."

Across the North Sea to Finland too.

[mass55th]

I was lucky enough to have visited Scotland in May of 2006. It was the middle of May, and it was snowing in the highlands. A couple on the bus tour from northern Australia had never seen snow, and asked the tour guide if we could stop so they could take pictures. They said their friends back home wouldn’t believe them unless they had photos of it.

[decimon]

Across the North Sea to Finland too.

Nah. Monty Python would have had a Finn skit. ;-)

[blam]

Stone Age Sites Found Under North Sea (8,000BC)

[decimon]

Great stuff. Given that people tend to live by the sea and that the shorelines of that age are worldwide beneath the sea, most of our early history is likely submerged.

[sionnsar]

Pipes and Drums of FreeRepublic ping!

This is an ultra-low-volume ping list (typically weeks to months between pings, for matters related to Highland bagpipes and Scotland).
FReepmail sionnsar if you want on or off this list.

Going to the Games? Organize a Clan FReeper get-together!