Blown Away by Orkney’s Stone Age
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I'm in the Orkney Islands and this is the ancient prehistoric site of skara brae and just it's a desolate beautiful corner and the far north of Scotland
this is a Neolithic community goes back 5,000 years as old as the pyramids
we are here early because we know when the cruise ships arrive the population of this island can literally double
we had this place all to ourselves and now the first of the cruise ship groups is coming in
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Orkney is blanketed with the stony remains of a thriving Neolithic community. And Skara Brae illustrates how these Neolithic people hunkered down in subterranean homes, connected by tunnels and lit only by whale-oil lamps. I’m here with my crew, filming this underground village for one of three new episodes about Scotland. We made a point to have an hour here before the arrival of the cruise ships. Standing there on that desolate bluff, all alone with these ruins, I marveled at how all of this was accomplished without the use of metal tools. This was the Stone Age — before people learned to use metals. The Stone Age! __ Follow along as I travel through Scotland: https://blog.ricksteves.com/blog/category/scotland