Pigs help uncover ice age tools

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Pigs help uncover ice age tools on Scottish island

Stone tools left by ice age hunter-gatherers who camped out on the east coast of the Scottish island of Islay about 12,000 years ago have 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 2,000 years – it had been thought that the earliest settlers crossed the landbridge after the ice age, about 10,500 years ago – and by 3,000 years on Islay.

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