Stone Age Farmers Beside the Sea: Scotland's Prehistoric Village of Skara BraeThis description of the Stone Age settlement preserved in the sand dunes of Scotland's Orkney Islands includes how it was discovered and what it reveals about life in prehistoric times. |
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1997 by Arthur alcoves animal Archeologists believe ARNOLD has collaborated beds began to live Brae was built Britain Broch Bronze Age buried CAROLINE ARNOLD chert circular ditch clan cluster of one-room ditch dresser dunes Eagles Europe's oldest known excavated experts believe experts think farming feet Five thousand found at Skara GIANT STANDING STONES Grinnell College hearth henge monuments houses at Skara inhabitants from cold Iron Age Kirkwall Laird of Skaill large stone slabs lived at Skara Maes midden mound Neolithic Age neolithic tomb neurobiologist at UCLA northern tip Orkney Islands Orkneys today passages passageways that linked period plant matter prehistoric sites remains Ring of Brodgar Rockefeller University roofs ruins of Skara sand Scotland Scottish word seabirds settlers sheep Skara Brae skins Stone Age stone tools stone walls Stones of Stennis structures Teotihuacán thousand years ago ture Viking village of Skara whalebone or wooden whales William Watt wood