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Age of Stone

Age of Bronze

Age of Iron

Age of Invasion

Age of Warriors

Age of Worship

Age of Kings

Age of Clans

Age of Industry

Age of Leisure

Age of War

This Age

Age of Stone

The Age of Stone ventures into the depths of prehistory to explore the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic. From scatters of stone tools and traces of domestic houses, to chambered cairns and rock art; this age gave rise to monumental architecture and the adoption of farming, and has left a lasting legacy on Scotland’s landscape to this day.

Howburn Farm - Biggar, South Lanarkshire

You would be forgiven for driving along the A702 in South Lanarkshire on your way home to Biggar without knowing you were in a landscape containing some of Scotland’s earliest archaeological evidence. Although the surrounding countryside is now rich agricultural farmland, archaeologists have discovered that people were living here as early as 12,000 years ago during the last ice age. That’s around 360 generations ago. Archaeologists call this period the Late Upper Palaeolithic.

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