A reconstruction drawing of villagers at Skara Brae. Skara Brae was the home of a Neolithic farming community. The people who lived here were able to grow some crops. They kept cows, sheep and pigs.

Skara Brae's remarkable survival through the ages is thanks to the design of the original builders who buried the stone-slab walls up to roof level in clay soil and waste material in order to ...

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But despite Skara Brae’s immaculate preservation, researchers still don’t know why it was abandoned. Before its discovery, ...