December
09
/ 2021
People migrated long distances in early medieval Scotland, concluded a new study on the Blair Atholl Man published in the Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal. The study reveals that he was not from the Scottish village in Perthshire he was named after. This 45-year-old man was buried in the Pictish style (the Picts were descendants of pre-Celtic migrants, who spoke a Celtic language), some 1,600 years ago in the Scottish Highlands. He was discovered in 1986 in the Scottish village of Blair Atholl, and immortalized in a reconstruction in 2017, reports The Daily Mail. "Not only does this allow us to paint a picture of an individual who lived and died more than 1,500 years ago, but also to gain
