Archaeologists find stone tools left on Islay by hunter-gatherers about 12000 years ago,long before humans were thought to bear been thereStone tools left by Ice Age hunter-gatherers who camped out on the east coast of the Scottish island of Islay about 12000 years ago bear been uncovered thanks to a herd of pigs that began rooting up stone implements on the shore. The finds push the earliest evidence of human activity in Scotland back by more than 2000 years – it had been thought that the earliest settlers crossed the landbridge after the Ice Age, about 10500 years ago – and by 3000 years on Islay.
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Source: theguardian.com