Five thousand years ago the ancient inhabitants of Orkney ... Neolithic, and these conditions may have had a negative effect on agriculture. Or perhaps it was the disruptive influence of a new ...

The new management plan, which builds on the work of the existing plan, will guide protection and conservation of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney and its testimony to the cultural achievements of ...

In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the ... “Most of the monuments you can see in this landscape date from the Neolithic—the New Stone Age. The earliest evidence of Neolithic activity ...

Around 6,000 years ago, instead of spending all their time hunting and gathering, people in Britain started living in a new ... Orkney Islands, off the coast of Scotland, there are no trees ...

One of the greatest architectural achievement of Scotland's Neolithic builders has to be the 5000 year old chambered tomb of Maes Howe in Orkney ... and birth of the new one – a symbolic ...