Long-distance Neolithic immigrant

How did red deer get to the Outer Hebrides and Orkney? Deer swim across rivers but they can’t tackle wide sea channels.

They must, therefore, have been brought to the islands in boats. Deer were a source of food and skins long ago.

Tools were fashioned from their bones sinews and antlers. Maes Howe and Skara Brae on Orkney, and the Callenish standing stones of Lewis, are among Europe’s most impressive Neolithic remains.