 Stone implements of the Ahrensburgian culture found at Rubha Port an t-Seilich near Port Askaig by foraging pigs in 2015 probably came from a summer camp used by hunters travelling round the coast in boats.Mesolithic finds have been dated to 7000 BC using radiocarbon dating of shells and debris from kitchen middens.By the Neolithic, settlements had become more permanent, allowing for the construction of several communal monuments.