- Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic technologies used composite objects of flaked stone and bone or antler to produce weapons capable of bringing down large mammals such as reindeer or red deer. Their use in violent acts against other human beings is entirely possible. The opportunistic use of any object, and the self, in manual violence is also possible. No evidence for such acts has been recovered from South West Scotland.
- No human remains have been identified from the region by modern research, hence no opportunity to show pre- or post-mortem injuries that could be derived from violence, maltreatment or misadventure. This absence also makes it impossible to establish what pathological conditions might be considered normal or abnormal in the resident population, and what potential stresses might have been acting upon that population. In the absence of any confirmed burials, there is no potential to recognise a burial rite which differs from normal practice.
- From the settlement record, there is no evidence of catastrophic loss or abandonment of settlement locations. Further, there is no clear enclosure of sites for protection, either from other human beings or wild animals. However, the excavator of West Challoch did postulate that the intermittent gullies bounding two of their structures may be a possible coherent enclosure.