Perhaps it's just my imagination.
Posted on 10/12/2005 5:23:11 PM PDT by blam
GGG Ping.
They brewed beer!
"their stone dressers, beds and hearths provide a remarkable glimpse of a lifestyle that has long disappeared."
Nah uh!! The flintstones had those too!!! But did they find the car???
Simon Schama's TV series on "Britain" has great video of Skara Brae. It sure looks cold there!
Would the local people have been "Picts" or not?
Scotland: A Concise History
(The Land And The People)
Possibly. At the time at least most of Scotland was inhabited by the Picts. Later the Orkneys (and other places) were invaded by the Vikings; also a group of Irish (the Scotti) moved on in to western Scotland, becoming the Highlanders and Islanders.
Perhaps it's just my imagination.
"Later the Orkneys (and other places) were invaded by the Vikings; also a group of Irish (the Scotti) moved on in to western Scotland, becoming the Highlanders and Islanders."
I had understood the Celts (Scotti) came much later than 5,000 years ago.
And I think the Nordics came later, too.
So that goes back to the picts or pre-picts; eg. what one might label the indiginous people of the British Isles.
(Before Celts, Romans, Agles, Saxons, Frisians, Jutes, Normans, Belgians, Vikings, etc.---5,000 years ago)
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Interesting. This village was built, then, around the same time Kint Tut ruled and Homer was writing the Iliad. Give or take a couple of decades.
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The important question is: Did the inhabitants have red hair?
Thank you, I was trying to remember why that name was familiar.
Cold stone furnishings
Tough stock
Actually, it's generally agreed that the Picts were probably a Celtic people. The remains of their stone circles and the inscriptions on those stones are near cousins to similar remains on the continent in known Celtic sites. Of course, the Celts may have simply conquered and absorbed the peoples who built the stone structures.
The Scotti migrated from Ireland in the 6 - 7th centuries, and the Vikings began their invasions in the 7 - 8th centuries.
The original Celtic invasions of what became known as Britain and Scotland would probably have been 1,000 - 1,500 years earlier. It is known that Celtic tribal migrations continued up into Roman times, as various tribes tried to escape Rome.
It is highly likely that there were earlier invasions of other peoples that are lost in the mists of time, just like the rest of Western Europe.
NFP
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