Settlements—mostly caves and rock shelters—are constructed at Sand, Applecross, on the coast of Wester Ross, Scotland, in about 7500 BCE.

The first users work antler and stone to make tools.

They are able to cross open sea, as they obtain distinctive stone for some of their tools from the island of Rùm, thirty kilometers (nineteen miles) to the south, and Staffin on Skye, ten kilometers (six miles) to the west.