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The largest structure at Barnhouse is the Sweat Lodge, Structure 8, a square pyramid timber construction with a sheltering windbreak around it and a hearth at the entrance for heating the stones.

#Barnhouse #Neolithic #Archaeology #Orkney #Prehistory

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/06/barnhouse-sweat-lodge.html

Neolithic Builders Near Jerusalem Made Advanced Plaster 8,000 Years Before the Romans

🔗 https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/neolithic-builders-near-jerusalem-made-advanced-plaster-8000-years-before-the-romans/

#Ancient #Neolithic #Jerusalem #Archaeology

Lots of Small sites are dotted around Orkney from the Neolithic period. These are mostly a hearth with a floor, and very little structural evidence. They were probably light temporary dwellings. They all tend to date to 3000BC or before that date.

#neolithic #archaeology #prehistory #orkney

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/06/mainland-settlements.html

Lots of Small sites are dotted around Orkney from the Neolithic period. These are mostly a hearth with a floor, and very little structural evidence. They were probably light temporary dwellings. They all tend to date to 3000BC or before that date.

#neolithic #archaeology #prehistory #orkney

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/06/mainland-settlements.html

Lots of Small sites are dotted around Orkney from the Neolithic period. These are mostly a hearth with a floor, and very little structural evidence. They were probably light temporary dwellings. They all tend to date to 3000BC or before that date.

#neolithic #archaeology #prehistory #orkney

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/06/mainland-settlements.html

Lots of Small sites are dotted around Orkney from the Neolithic period. These are mostly a hearth with a floor, and very little structural evidence. They were probably light temporary dwellings. They all tend to date to 3000BC or before that date.

#neolithic #archaeology #prehistory #orkney

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/06/mainland-settlements.html

Lots of Small sites are dotted around Orkney from the Neolithic period. These are mostly a hearth with a floor, and very little structural evidence. They were probably light temporary dwellings. They all tend to date to 3000BC or before that date.

#neolithic #archaeology #prehistory #orkney

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/06/mainland-settlements.html

Well, I disagree with the #Pope. I don't think #humanity is all that magnificent - quite the reverse, in fact - & I don't think it takes AI to 'normalise' #war. War has been pretty #normal human #behaviour throughout the course of #history, ever since the #Neolithic. All we've done is develop evermore successful, & lethal, #technological means of killing one another.

Evidence that the North Sea was divided by a peninsula from Doggerland to the Atlantic Ocean. This separated Norwegian coastal waters from British coastal waters until around 3000BC. 

#neolithic #archaeology #Orkney #prehistory

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/06/archaeology-in-north-sea.html

Evidence that the North Sea was divided by a peninsula from Doggerland to the Atlantic Ocean. This separated Norwegian coastal waters from British coastal waters until around 3000BC. 

#neolithic #archaeology #Orkney #prehistory

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/06/archaeology-in-north-sea.html

Evidence that the North Sea was divided by a peninsula from Doggerland to the Atlantic Ocean. This separated Norwegian coastal waters from British coastal waters until around 3000BC. 

#neolithic #archaeology #Orkney #prehistory

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/06/archaeology-in-north-sea.html

Evidence that the North Sea was divided by a peninsula from Doggerland to the Atlantic Ocean. This separated Norwegian coastal waters from British coastal waters until around 3000BC. 

#neolithic #archaeology #Orkney #prehistory

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/06/archaeology-in-north-sea.html

Evidence that the North Sea was divided by a peninsula from Doggerland to the Atlantic Ocean. This separated Norwegian coastal waters from British coastal waters until around 3000BC. 

#neolithic #archaeology #Orkney #prehistory

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/06/archaeology-in-north-sea.html

The location of Walkable land between eastern England and Holland is suggested here, with evidence that supports the theory. 

Finding evidence for land between Britain and Europe makes it easier to justify land between Scotland and Orkney .

#neolithic #Orkney #prehistory #archaeology

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/06/walkable-land-in-north-sea.html

The location of Walkable land between eastern England and Holland is suggested here, with evidence that supports the theory. 

Finding evidence for land between Britain and Europe makes it easier to justify land between Scotland and Orkney .

#neolithic #Orkney #prehistory #archaeology

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/06/walkable-land-in-north-sea.html

The location of Walkable land between eastern England and Holland is suggested here, with evidence that supports the theory. 

Finding evidence for land between Britain and Europe makes it easier to justify land between Scotland and Orkney .

#neolithic #Orkney #prehistory #archaeology

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/06/walkable-land-in-north-sea.html

The location of Walkable land between eastern England and Holland is suggested here, with evidence that supports the theory. 

Finding evidence for land between Britain and Europe makes it easier to justify land between Scotland and Orkney .

#neolithic #Orkney #prehistory #archaeology

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/06/walkable-land-in-north-sea.html

The location of Walkable land between eastern England and Holland is suggested here, with evidence that supports the theory. 

Finding evidence for land between Britain and Europe makes it easier to justify land between Scotland and Orkney .

#neolithic #Orkney #prehistory #archaeology

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/06/walkable-land-in-north-sea.html

La cultura Hongshan (4700-2500 a.C.) tallaba jades en forma de nubes, cuyas espirales están presentes en el torso de esta figura cornuda. 🏛️Galería de Arte Throckmorton #neolitico #neolithic

How ancient communities adapted their diets and farming strategies in prehistoric Poland

Archaeologists and bioarchaeologists have reconstructed three thousand years of diet and economy in Kuyavia, north-central Poland, tracing how communities adapted between about 4100 and 1230 BCE. The project examined 84 individuals from the Middle Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/farming-strategies-in-prehistoric-poland/

Follow @archaeology

#archaeology #archaeologynews #bioarchaeology #Neolithic #BronzeAge

French astronomer Adrien Auzout, who died OTD in 1691, made observations of comets and was a founding member of the #Paris Observatory, which is near some #Neolithic monuments on the edge of the city https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/paris-megaliths/?s=mb #travel

The Pentland Firth is the channel of water that separates Orkney from Scotland.
It is a rough crossing, and in the days of sailing ships, was avoided at all costs for its ability to cause havoc to seaborne traffic.
The possibility of this particular piece of water being crossed by any neolithic craft is somewhere south of zero.
Here's why.

#Neolithic #archaeoloy #Orkney #prehistory

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/12/pentland-firth.html

The Pentland Firth is the channel of water that separates Orkney from Scotland.
It is a rough crossing, and in the days of sailing ships, was avoided at all costs for its ability to cause havoc to seaborne traffic.
The possibility of this particular piece of water being crossed by any neolithic craft is somewhere south of zero.
Here's why.

#Neolithic #archaeoloy #Orkney #prehistory

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/12/pentland-firth.html

The Pentland Firth is the channel of water that separates Orkney from Scotland.
It is a rough crossing, and in the days of sailing ships, was avoided at all costs for its ability to cause havoc to seaborne traffic.
The possibility of this particular piece of water being crossed by any neolithic craft is somewhere south of zero.
Here's why.

#Neolithic #archaeoloy #Orkney #prehistory

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/12/pentland-firth.html

The Pentland Firth is the channel of water that separates Orkney from Scotland.
It is a rough crossing, and in the days of sailing ships, was avoided at all costs for its ability to cause havoc to seaborne traffic.
The possibility of this particular piece of water being crossed by any neolithic craft is somewhere south of zero.
Here's why.

#Neolithic #archaeoloy #Orkney #prehistory

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/12/pentland-firth.html

The Pentland Firth is the channel of water that separates Orkney from Scotland.
It is a rough crossing, and in the days of sailing ships, was avoided at all costs for its ability to cause havoc to seaborne traffic.
The possibility of this particular piece of water being crossed by any neolithic craft is somewhere south of zero.
Here's why.

#Neolithic #archaeoloy #Orkney #prehistory

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/12/pentland-firth.html

Tomb of the Eagles Welcome Day: Thanking the Local Community

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/05/23/tomb-of-the-eagles-welcome-day-thanking-the-local-community/

They have built a replica of a 4,500-year-old Neolithic building, near Stonehenge.

This might be a bit pedantic, but in the article they say they used historically accurate tools, but in the photos, they are using metal ladders!

#stonehenge #neolithic #BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz62yp6l3geo

The Neolithic Migration into Orkney

My best guess for how the Migration of people in Neolithic Britain accessed Orkney, how the land that they walked over was eroded away, and how some people remained on Orkney as castaways,  building some of the most evocative structures in the Neolithic world.

#neolithic #prehistory #archaeology #Orkney #Scotland #Brodgar #skarabrae 

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/07/neolithic-migration-to-orkney.html

The Neolithic Migration into Orkney

My best guess for how the Migration of people in Neolithic Britain accessed Orkney, how the land that they walked over was eroded away, and how some people remained on Orkney as castaways,  building some of the most evocative structures in the Neolithic world.

#neolithic #prehistory #archaeology #Orkney #Scotland #Brodgar #skarabrae 

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/07/neolithic-migration-to-orkney.html

The Neolithic Migration into Orkney

My best guess for how the Migration of people in Neolithic Britain accessed Orkney, how the land that they walked over was eroded away, and how some people remained on Orkney as castaways,  building some of the most evocative structures in the Neolithic world.

#neolithic #prehistory #archaeology #Orkney #Scotland #Brodgar #skarabrae 

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/07/neolithic-migration-to-orkney.html

The Neolithic Migration into Orkney

My best guess for how the Migration of people in Neolithic Britain accessed Orkney, how the land that they walked over was eroded away, and how some people remained on Orkney as castaways,  building some of the most evocative structures in the Neolithic world.

#neolithic #prehistory #archaeology #Orkney #Scotland #Brodgar #skarabrae 

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/07/neolithic-migration-to-orkney.html

The Neolithic Migration into Orkney

My best guess for how the Migration of people in Neolithic Britain accessed Orkney, how the land that they walked over was eroded away, and how some people remained on Orkney as castaways,  building some of the most evocative structures in the Neolithic world.

#neolithic #prehistory #archaeology #Orkney #Scotland #Brodgar #skarabrae 

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/07/neolithic-migration-to-orkney.html

Ancient legend. A people with holes through their chests. 🦴

Archeology found them. Not born that way. Drilled. 4,000 years ago. Perfectly round. Clean edges. Healed bone — meaning they lived with it.

Not war wounds. Not accidents. Ritual? Rite of passage? Or the world's earliest surgery?

Shan Hai Jing (Classic of Mountains and Seas) wasn't all myth. Someone saw something real. Then told a wild story.

#ShanHaiJing #AncientSurgery #Neolithic #SkullDrilling #Archaeology #貫胸國 #MythAndScience

bell beaker booze news now… via @archeologiazywa #BellBeaker #neolithic https://archeologia.com.pl/duch-puszczy-sprzed-4500-lat-nowe-badania-ceramiki-z-suprasla-i-skrzeszewa/

Everybody i talked to about this neolithic migration into Orkney from northern Scotland told me they had boats. That people 5000 yearsago could float across the Pentland Firth in sufficient numbers to build the Ring of Brodgar.

They gave no proof, no evidence,  just the certainty that people living in the stone age had the ability to cross the English Channel and the Pentland Firth with sheep and dogs.

I didn't believe it.

#neolithic #prehistory #Orkney #archaeology 

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/07/they-must-have-had-boats.html

Everybody i talked to about this neolithic migration into Orkney from northern Scotland told me they had boats. That people 5000 yearsago could float across the Pentland Firth in sufficient numbers to build the Ring of Brodgar.

They gave no proof, no evidence,  just the certainty that people living in the stone age had the ability to cross the English Channel and the Pentland Firth with sheep and dogs.

I didn't believe it.

#neolithic #prehistory #Orkney #archaeology 

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/07/they-must-have-had-boats.html

Everybody i talked to about this neolithic migration into Orkney from northern Scotland told me they had boats. That people 5000 yearsago could float across the Pentland Firth in sufficient numbers to build the Ring of Brodgar.

They gave no proof, no evidence,  just the certainty that people living in the stone age had the ability to cross the English Channel and the Pentland Firth with sheep and dogs.

I didn't believe it.

#neolithic #prehistory #Orkney #archaeology 

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/07/they-must-have-had-boats.html

Everybody i talked to about this neolithic migration into Orkney from northern Scotland told me they had boats. That people 5000 yearsago could float across the Pentland Firth in sufficient numbers to build the Ring of Brodgar.

They gave no proof, no evidence,  just the certainty that people living in the stone age had the ability to cross the English Channel and the Pentland Firth with sheep and dogs.

I didn't believe it.

#neolithic #prehistory #Orkney #archaeology 

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/07/they-must-have-had-boats.html

Everybody i talked to about this neolithic migration into Orkney from northern Scotland told me they had boats. That people 5000 yearsago could float across the Pentland Firth in sufficient numbers to build the Ring of Brodgar.

They gave no proof, no evidence,  just the certainty that people living in the stone age had the ability to cross the English Channel and the Pentland Firth with sheep and dogs.

I didn't believe it.

#neolithic #prehistory #Orkney #archaeology 

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/07/they-must-have-had-boats.html

The Orkney Vole was thought to have been brought to Orkney as pets, on seaweed rafts, or in fodder taken up north by neolithic farmers. This Belgian species, the European Vole migrated to Orkney without landing on mainland Britain. Now though bones of the species have been found in a cave in South West England. 

#neolithic #Orkney #prehistory #archaeology

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-orkney-vole.html

The Orkney Vole was thought to have been brought to Orkney as pets, on seaweed rafts, or in fodder taken up north by neolithic farmers. This Belgian species, the European Vole migrated to Orkney without landing on mainland Britain. Now though bones of the species have been found in a cave in South West England. 

#neolithic #Orkney #prehistory #archaeology

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-orkney-vole.html

The Orkney Vole was thought to have been brought to Orkney as pets, on seaweed rafts, or in fodder taken up north by neolithic farmers. This Belgian species, the European Vole migrated to Orkney without landing on mainland Britain. Now though bones of the species have been found in a cave in South West England. 

#neolithic #Orkney #prehistory #archaeology

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-orkney-vole.html

The Orkney Vole was thought to have been brought to Orkney as pets, on seaweed rafts, or in fodder taken up north by neolithic farmers. This Belgian species, the European Vole migrated to Orkney without landing on mainland Britain. Now though bones of the species have been found in a cave in South West England. 

#neolithic #Orkney #prehistory #archaeology

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-orkney-vole.html

When did humans start killing each other systematically?

Archaeology answers: with agriculture.
Sedentism → surplus → property → defence → hierarchy.

Violence was endemic in Neolithic Europe — sometimes reaching levels that ended in the utter destruction of entire communities.

Competition between growing settlements over arable land drove conflict.

Cui bono? Then as now: those who can store.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2209481119
#CuiBono #History #Neolithic #War #Agriculture

Starting again from scratch, this is the story of the neolithic people of Orkney and of Britain who are today believed to have had boats that would equip them to travel the seaways of Britain.

This first episode or blog expains how and why i dreamed up the idea that people walked from Caithness and Orkney, my Bizarre Idea.

#Neolithic #Orkney #prehistory #archaeology

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-bizarre-idea.html

Starting again from scratch, this is the story of the neolithic people of Orkney and of Britain who are today believed to have had boats that would equip them to travel the seaways of Britain.

This first episode or blog expains how and why i dreamed up the idea that people walked from Caithness and Orkney, my Bizarre Idea.

#Neolithic #Orkney #prehistory #archaeology

https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-bizarre-idea.html

Reposting from Cambridge University Press-Archaeology:
📢 The Society for American Archaeology's @saa-aap.bsky.social is in the news!

🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#bronzeage #neolithic #archaeology

Archaeoethnologica: Mediterranean Horizons - Book / Horizontes Mediterrâneos - Livro

+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2026/05/horizontes-mediterraneos-livro.html

#Archaeology #ClassicalArchaeology #Protohistory #Prehistory #neolithic #IronAge #BronzeAge #Mediterranean #Greece #materialculture #settlement #city #trade #culturalcontact #Africa #amber #resources #Antiquity #books #openaccess

Archaeoethnologica: Mediterranean Horizons - Book / Horizontes Mediterrâneos - Livro

+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2026/05/horizontes-mediterraneos-livro.html

#Archaeology #ClassicalArchaeology #Protohistory #Prehistory #neolithic #IronAge #BronzeAge #Mediterranean #Greece #materialculture #settlement #city #trade #culturalcontact #Africa #amber #resources #Antiquity #books #openaccess