“For starters, you have to stop thinking of Orkney as remote,” says Caroline Wickham-Jones, a lecturer in archaeology at the University of Aberdeen. “For most of history, from the Neolithic ...

One of the most remarkable discoveries in modern archaeology: in 1850 a violent storm ravaged the Bay of Skaill in the Orkney Isles to the north-east of mainland Scotland, revealing the Neolithic ...

Skara Brae: Relatively few Neolithic settlement sites have been excavated. Skara Brae (Orkney) is particularly well known because it is a village of small stonehouses in which much of the furniture ...

Many of the Neolithic tombs were used for hundreds of years, with mortuary houses built of wood or stone. The latter, often constructed of large stones, still survive today. Midhowe: An example of a ...

Despite the fact that it’s over 5,000 years old, Maeshowe, Orkney's answer to Stonehenge, is in amazing shape. But why did Neolithic Britons go to such great lengths to build it? Explore ...

Beyond its beam lies the Orkney archipelago ... the lives of Neolithic people. The site, dating back 5,000 years, is Europe’s most complete Neolithic village. Each stone house follows a similar ...

Orkney’s archaeology never fails to stun now work ... The Ness of Brodgar, a huge Neolithic complex of monumental structures in the heart of the Orkney mainland that would have dominated the ...

A scientific study with important implications for archaeology in Britain and France was published last week. Using ancient DNA analysis and testing, a team led by Dr Lara Cassidy and Professor Daniel ...

University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute said fingerprint ... among a number of sites making up the Heart of Neolithic Orkney, a Unesco world Heritage site.

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