A circular alignment of stones discovered on the island of Skye.
A new investigation has discovered submerged stone circles that reveal a “very dangerous” migration of prehistoric peoples to the far north of Scotland 11,000 years ago.
The recent discovery of stone circles Submers and tools of the Stone Age on the island of Skye, Scotland, revealed that humans have occupied what today is the extreme network of that nation about 11,000 years.
The discovery indicates that these peoples faced an unstable landscape of floating coastal glaciers and coastal lines in northern Scotland, venturing much more to the north than experts believed.
The study, in April in the Journal of Quaternary Scienceconcluded that this migration – which was described as “Most Happy” – It is the oldest occupation so far known in northwestern Scotland.
As it writes, until recently, little was known about the first settlements in Scotland, due to factors such as the increase in sea level and the lack of organic remains to date archaeological sites by radiocarbon. However, the new study found numerous tools that can change this scenario.
The utensils found were molded stone in ends, blades and scrapers in a style called Ahrensburgiano -which was used throughout the center-north Europe during the upper paleolithic.
The artifacts brought evidence that they were missing that Hunters-Gloryers crossed the inhospitable coast of Skye Island over 11,000 years ago.
Several paleolithic stone tools were discovered on Skye Island.
Mysterious circle of stones
Researchers also found several stone circles with 3 to 5 meters in diameter in the tide zone of a second archaeological site.
But what most amazed scientists were stones about 0.5 meters in diameter were embedded in the clay background of the beach, forming a circle.
A circular alignment of stones discovered on the island of Skye.
Due to rising sea level, these stone circles “are only visible in the extreme tides of spring and exposed about 2 to 3 hours a year,” the investigators explained in.
By estimating the moment of the retreat of glaciers and the elevation of sea level, the researchers determined that the only time when these stone circles could have been created would have been about 11,000 years ago during a period of volatile climate change when the glaciers melted quickly at the end of the last age.
This period corresponds to similar stone circles found in Norway, dated 11,000 to 10,500 years ago and one is thought to be the remains of a tent or hobby covered with fur.
Prehistoric land corridor
According to the same study, around the same time in The Stone Circle was formed, the lowest sea level would also have opened a land bridge or land corridor between the southern part of Skye Island and Continental Scotland.
Ancient peoples would probably have used this passage by migrating to Northwest from what today is Germany and Belgium.
Today, this track of land that connects Britain to continental Europe is known as Doggerland – Now submerged in the North Sea.
“The journey made by these pioneering peoples who left their territories in the plains of continental Europe to travel north toward the unknown is a great story of adventure,” the research leader said in the statement in the statement in the statement, Karen Hardyprehistoric archaeologist at Glasgow University.
