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Sté préhistorique françaiseParution de la séance SPF « Émile Rivière (1835-1922) en questions »* en accès libre à : <a href="https://tinyurl.com/spf-riviere" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/spf-riviere</a> * retrouvez également les vidéos de la rencontre : <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@emileriviere-vq9ii" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@emileriviere-vq9ii</a><a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/prehistoire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prehistoire</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prehistory</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#archaeology</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/archeologie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#archeologie</a>

Sté préhistorique françaiseLa lettre d'information mensuelle de la SPF no 92 est parue !<a href="https://www.prehistoire.org/515_p_46631/newsletter.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.prehistoire.org/515_p_46631/newsletter.html</a><a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/prehistoire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prehistoire</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prehistory</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#archaeology</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/archeologie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#archeologie</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Is it such a conceptual Black Swan for some that our Neanderthal siblings might be capable of Abstract thought like Homo Sapiens? I bet you they sung songs about the animal skulls they had.<a href="https://www.iflscience.com/this-neanderthal-skull-cave-was-used-to-stash-heads-for-generations-79305" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.iflscience.com/this-neanderthal-skull-cave-was-used-to-stash-heads-for-generations-79305</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Neanderthals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neanderthals</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prehistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hominins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hominins</a>

Wokebloke for DemocracyAn armored mammal from the Pliocene. Think of today's armadillo or pangolin.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neosclerocalyptus" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neosclerocalyptus</a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/Fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fossils</a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/Prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prehistory</a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/Origin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Origin</a>

Lubomír Tomik<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prehistory</a>Sólin je islandsky Slunce. Karta Thothova tarotu JE Slunce. Míchání balíčku při projekci videa, video skončí, otočíš jednu z 80 karet. Posbíráš bradu, udiveně nevěříš, a : Slunce PRINCIP SPOLUPRÁCE, TÝMOVÉ PRÁCE A PARTNERSTVÍ Slunce je univerzálním principem týmové práce, partnerství a spolupráce. Slunce znázorňuje životní sílu v našem nitru, která čeká až bude využita. Je to obraz „kosmického tance dvou principů na zelené hoře tvořivosti“.<a href="http://midianpoet.com/2025/05/20/prehistory/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://midianpoet.com/2025/05/20/prehistory/</a>

Marcial Tenreiro-BermudezArchaeoethnologica: Forging Identities in Prehistory - Book / Forjar Identidades na Pré-história - Livro+INFO in: <a href="https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/05/forjar-identidades-na-pre-historia.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/05/forjar-identidades-na-pre-historia.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Archaeology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prehistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eneolithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eneolithic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Steppe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steppe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Balcans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Balcans</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Identity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Identity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CucuteniTripolye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CucuteniTripolye</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EastEurope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EastEurope</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openaccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#openaccess</a>

Marcial Tenreiro-BermudezArchaeoethnologica: Lifestyles & Networks in Bell Beakers / Modos de Vida e redes no Campaniforme+INFO in: <a href="https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/05/modos-de-vida-e-redes-no-campaniforme.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/05/modos-de-vida-e-redes-no-campaniforme.html</a><a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Archaeology</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prehistory</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/BellBeakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BellBeakers</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Congress</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/networks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#networks</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/materialculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#materialculture</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/culturaldiffusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#culturaldiffusion</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/lifestyles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lifestyles</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/eneolithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eneolithic</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/culturalcontact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#culturalcontact</a>

Nick FergusonThe Standing Stones of Stenness on Orkney. "This may be the oldest henge site in the British Isles" absolutley stunning and magical, for me a lot more powerful the Brodgar which is just up the road. <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingStoneSunday</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/PreHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PreHistory</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scotland</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Orkney</a>

Nick FergusonNether Largie standing stones in Kilmartin Glen, Scotland. Photo 2 showing Prehistoric rock art cup marks on the south face of the central stone.<a href="https://toot.wales/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandingStoneSunday</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/PreHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PreHistory</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scotland</a>

Prehistoric PortugalWander through the countryside in Portugal's Castelo de Vide and you’ll find the Megalithic Park of Coureleiros: a cluster of several Neolithic dolmens scattered across farmland, some nearly lost to time.In my latest video, I explore what’s left of these ancient tombs …and what they still have to tell us!<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/megalith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#megalith</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/megalithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#megalithic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/megaliths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#megaliths</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dolmen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dolmen</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/standingstones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#standingstones</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Neolithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neolithic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Portugal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Portugal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CasteloDeVide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CasteloDeVide</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AncientPortugal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AncientPortugal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prehistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prehistoric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prehistoric</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrE33h2HIYo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrE33h2HIYo</a>

Interesting Links<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00216-x" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Did giant ice age beasts carve these vast caves in South America?</a> "Researchers are investigating who — or what — cut ancient tunnels in sandstone in Brazil and nearby nations."<a href="https://bookmarks.kvibber.com/tagged/prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prehistory</a> <a href="https://bookmarks.kvibber.com/tagged/sloths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sloths</a> <a href="https://bookmarks.kvibber.com/tagged/caves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#caves</a> <a href="https://bookmarks.kvibber.com/tagged/Brazil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Brazil</a> <a href="https://bookmarks.kvibber.com/tagged/SouthAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthAmerica</a>

Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐En varias cuevas remotas del Gran Cañón del Colorado se encontraron figuras de hace 2000-4000 años fabricadas con ramitas con forma de ciervo o muflón. Aunque se desconoce su propósito, el difícil acceso a las cuevas ha justificado descartar su uso como juguetes. 📷Parque Nacional Gran Cañón <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prehistoria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prehistoria</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prehistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/granca%C3%B1on" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grancañon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/grandcanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grandcanyon</a>

Bob the TravelerFrench scientist Geurges Cuvier, who died OTD in 1832, is sometimes called the "founding father of paleontology"; visit one of the many scientific museums or sites in <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Paris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Paris</a> <a href="https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/paris-megaliths/?s=mb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/paris-megaliths/?s=mb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#travel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prehistory</a>

Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐La punta de lanza de Clacton fabricada en tejo hace 410000 años por los antiguos humanos, junto con lascas. Al secarse en su almacenamiento, se redujo su longitud de 387 a 367 mm y se curvó. Además, su punta se rompió y se ha pegado dos veces. 🏛️Museo de Historia Natural de Londres 📷Geni <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prehistoria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prehistoria</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prehistory</a>

MediaFaro MagazineHomo sapiens regularly crossed the Pyrenees during the Ice Age – here’s what they took with them.Flint tools carried across the Pyrenees reveal the routes prehistoric humans took.<a href="https://mediafaro.org/article/20250507-homo-sapiens-regularly-crossed-the-pyrenees-during-the-ice-age-heres-what-they-took-with-them?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mediafaro.org/article/20250507-homo-sapiens-regularly-crossed-the-pyrenees-during-the-ice-age-heres-what-they-took-with-them?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward</a><a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/HomoSapiens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HomoSapiens</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Pyrenees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pyrenees</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prehistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Palaeolithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palaeolithic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/IceAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IceAge</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Archaeology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Research</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Spain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Spain</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Catalonia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Catalonia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#France</a>

MediaFaro MagazineBronze-age Britain traded tin with the Mediterranean, a new study shows – settling a two-century debate.The tin would have made a 4,000km journey to thriving markets in the east Mediterranean.<a href="https://mediafaro.org/article/20250507-bronze-age-britain-traded-tin-with-the-mediterranean-a-new-study-shows-settling-a-two-century-debate?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mediafaro.org/article/20250507-bronze-age-britain-traded-tin-with-the-mediterranean-a-new-study-shows-settling-a-two-century-debate?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward</a><a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Britain</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Mediterranean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mediterranean</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Archaeology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Tin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/BronzeAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BronzeAge</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prehistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Research</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Cornwall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cornwall</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Devon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Devon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UK</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Sardinia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sardinia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Cyprus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cyprus</a>

Orkney RiddlerThis is a short telling of the journey of the Orkney <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vole</a>. It is the story of how a European species of rodent, the Orkney Vole, travelled from Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands to Orkney over 5,000 years ago, without actually setting foot in Britain. No convincing explanation for this phenomenon has been researched or provided. To understand how this was possible,  the formations on the floor of the North Sea must be explained. At the end of the ice age the North Sea didn't really exist. There was a deep trench along the Norwegian Coast called the Norwegian Channel,  and deep water features along the east coast of England and Scotland. Between those deep water coastal features was a ridge of land linking the well-known Doggerland in the southern North Sea to the now-removed Land-East-of-Shetland. There was no direct access from the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Atlantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Atlantic</a> Oceanic waters through the Dover Strait,   or between Scotland and Orkney,  or between Orkney and Shetland. Animals, and people, were able to walk from mainland Europe onto Doggerland until 10,000BP when rising seas connected deep water on the English coast with the Norwegian Channel around the south coast of Dogger Bank. Animals inhabiting Doggerland,  and the Land-East-of-Shetland would have been able to migrate from mainland Europe to Orkney without passing through Britain. The Orkney Vole was one of those animals that did. At about 3000BC,  as rising sea-levels surged down the Norwegian Channel,  and through the Dover Strait,  the narrowest region of land separating <a href="https://c.im/tags/Doggerland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Doggerland</a> from Land-East-of-<a href="https://c.im/tags/Shetland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Shetland</a> collapsed. This event was followed by the swift removal of loose sands and gravels from the whole of the northern North Sea. In this process, land bridges joining Scotland to Orkney and Orkney to Shetland were removed. People who had been nomadic shepherds living in Orkney for summer months were denied access to the place where they had built stone circles, and Cairns. Some people remained on Orkney,  either by accident or on purpose. They were marooned on the islands and as a result they set about developing the more permanent and weatherproof settlements of Skara Brae and the Ness of Brodgar. A detailed account, with substantial evidence is in the blog:- <a href="http://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-orkney-riddle.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-orkney-riddle.html</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Orkney</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Neolithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neolithic</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#archaeology</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prehistory</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/northsea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#northsea</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Orkneyvole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Orkneyvole</a>

The Prehistoric SocietyA lovely read for the Bank Holiday weekend: PAST 109 is now online and free to read.This issue looks at textile working in Sussex, new Dartmoor stone circles and even barrows used as windmill-steads!Enjoy! <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Archaeology</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prehistory</a> ⚱️<a href="https://www.prehistoricsociety.org/publications/past/109" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.prehistoricsociety.org/publications/past/109</a>

Orkney RiddlerMy blog is a bit long, so probably off-putting.  It attempts to "prove" that people were walking from Scotland to Orkney in the early part of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Neolithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neolithic</a> period. In extensive and detailed research I have found a series of observations derived from other peoples work that, put together,  may be enough to prove that there was walkable land from Doggerland north to the Shetlands,  and also from <a href="https://c.im/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Orkney</a> to Caithness. In brief , there is evidence of a passage of land leading from <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dogger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dogger</a> Bank to a location in the north of the North Sea where a flint artefact was found half way between Shetland and Norway. There is also evidence that that land collapsed towards the Norwegian Coast in 3000BC. On Orkney, Barnhouse and many other small settlements across mainland Orkney are all shallow sites that are clearly not designed to be occupied in an Orkney winter. These settlements were all abandoned before 3000BC. My only assumption is that when land in the North of the North Sea was lost so also was a bridge between South Ronaldsay on Orkney,  and Caithness, north Scotland. The Stones of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Stenness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stenness</a> and Ring of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brodgar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Brodgar</a> were abandoned, unfinished, probably at 3000BC. The Westray islands are abandoned at 3000BC, and not colonised again until the second half of the 3rd millennium BC. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Skara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Skara</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Brae</a>, and the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ness</a> of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brodgar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Brodgar</a>, both have dated deposits from before 3000BC indicating there was some kind of occupation until then, but not till after 3000BC are the revolutionary solid structures with stone lined drains and other necessary amenities for winter weather designed and constructed. The structures at the Ness of Brodgar were made of wood, largely, so they would not have lasted long, a couple of generations perhaps. The dates of the human bones found in the cairns are largely assessed to before 3000BC, and the dates of the animal bones, also in the cairns, which were arguably being eaten by people, are largely after 3000BC. This suggests that when a few groups of people isolated from mainland Britain lost the structural secuity of their solidly built structures, they may have sought desperate refuge in the cairns. Temporary visitors returned,  by newly developed boats, in the second half of the 3rd millennium BC. Detailed, if longwinded, analysis is in the blog:-<a href="http://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-orkney-riddle.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-orkney-riddle.html</a><a href="https://c.im/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#archaeology</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Orkney</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prehistory</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Neolithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neolithic</a>

Orkney RiddlerIn “Beside the Ocean of Time: a chronology of Neolithic <a href="https://c.im/tags/burial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#burial</a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Monuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monuments</a> and houses in Orkney”, Seren Griffiths lists the carbon dates of human bones from 10 Orkney cairns. The cumulative data for these skeletal remains demonstrates that about 75% of the people lain in the cairns died roughly before 3000BC, the rest of them died later, mostly through the 3rd millennium BC. Similar findings are suggested by dating of <a href="https://c.im/tags/skeletons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#skeletons</a> in Scotland and England, and it is likely that the fall in numbers of bodies in cairns is, as much as anything, because after a couple of hundred years of existence the cairns were in poor condition, and often collapsing, making them sometimes risky places to enter. Personally, I could never believe that the purpose of cairns was for the storage of corpses. Clearly in later millennia they were regarded as suitable sites for depositing cremated remains and the like. Later burials seem to be dug into the perifery of the monuments, or a later addition. In the few examples of funerary monuments that I've seen it's only special sites like Sutton Hoo that are obviously built with the intention of burying bodies. See more in the Orkney Riddle blog:- <a href="http://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-orkney-riddle.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-orkney-riddle.html</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Orkney</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Neolithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neolithic</a> #<a href="https://c.im/tags/prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prehistory</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#archaeology</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/cairns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cairns</a>

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