Early Scottish History

7,000 BC - Mesolithic Hunters and Fishermen.

6,000 BC - Use of flint tools.

4,000 BC - Earliest settlements of Neolithic Farmers.

2,500 BC - Migration of Beaker People from Europe.

2,000 BC - Bronze Age - appears to have spread from Ireland

1400 - 900 BC - Improved tools and weapons.

900 BC - First Celtic Migration from Europe in the west with two branches - Goidelic, settling in Ireland and western Scotland; Brythonic. Romans referred to these people as Picti, the Picts.

900 - 400 BC - Production of elaborate shields.

500 BC - Iron Age - iron replacing bronze, possibly introduced during the Celtic migration. Earliest fortifications built, as a defence from invasion.

400 BC - Crannogs built for defence.

100 BC - Brochs built, also for defence. Other buildings, including duns, souterrains and wheelhouses, built for defence as well as permanent dwellings.

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