Signs of earliest Scots unearthed

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7992300.stm
Signs of earliest Scots unearthed
The diggers near Biggar
The flints were found in a ploughed field near Biggar

Archaeologists have discovered the earliest evidence of human beings ever found in Scotland.

They are similar to tools known to have been used in the Netherlands and northern Germany 14,000 years ago, or 12,000 BC.

They were probably used by hunters to kill reindeer, mammoth and giant elk and to cut up prey and prepare their skins.

.......... Tam Ward, from the Biggar Archaeology Group, which carried out the dig, said: "To push Scotland's human history back by nearly 4,000 years is remarkable.

"We didn't set out to do that," ...........