Discovery of Ancient Lost Settlement on Scotland's Isle of Skye Rewrites Early Human History [View all]
Tim McMillan·May 13, 2025
In the windswept reaches of northern Scotland, where jagged cliffs meet the crashing waves of the Atlantic, a discovery has emerged that challenges long-held assumptions about human history at the icy edge of Europe.
Archaeologists have unearthed stone tools on the far northern coast of the Isle of Skye, suggesting that humans thrived at what was once considered the bleak and uninhabitable margin of the world during the final throes of the last Ice Age.
The study, published in The Journal of Quaternary Science, details the finding of Late Upper Paleolithic (LUP) tools at South Cuidrach on the Isle of Skye. These tools—identified as likely belonging to the Ahrensburgian culture—represent the most northerly evidence of human occupation in Britain from that period.
It is a revelation that not only rewrites the timeline of Scottish prehistory but also reminds us just how many ancient mysteries remain hidden under our planet’s shifting tides and rugged landscapes.
“Together with the new stone alignments and several other nearby sites, this region now contains more evidence for the LUP than anywhere else in Scotland,” researchers wrote. “We anticipate that by examining this new evidence within the various broad geographical and geomorphological conditions, there is significant potential for the discovery of further LUP locations both on and off‐shore in this region.”
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