Shetland: Edge of the Prehistoric World
The Ancients
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Early Settlement in Shetland
We don't know much about their boats and how they got to Shetland. We have just maybe hints of earlier settlement, but it's really just in pollen analysis. The jury is definitely still out on whether or not there are any Mesolithic people living here at the time that you're talking about. You mentioned the Neolithic period? Was that, were those dates that you were hinting at earlier, is that the fourth millennium BC around that time? Yes, we do only have things from the Neolithic so far. And I guess on Orkney too, where you have those little hints of the Mesolithic, the Honsic-Athera peoples communities being there
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