Amazing how much knowledge is untapped and how various groups were evolving all around the world in what we now call the bronze age and fascinating how the elements that destroyed the village revealed it again after all those years!
Skara brae A village from prehistory In Scotland, there are some islands called Orkney. One day, there was a big storm and it was very windy. The wind moved the sand. The next day the people of Orkney saw an old village under the sand. It was more than five thousand years old!!! It's name was Skara Brae. Now it's a museum. The people of prehistory didn't read or write, but we now a lot about them from their houses and their objects. Let's read about how families lived in Skara Brae. 1. Houses There were eight houses in Skara Brae. There were passages with a roof from one house to the next. This was very good idea. Orkney is very cold and windy! In winter, people went down the passages to visit their friends. 2. Inside house There were any threes in Skara Brae so people made everything inside their houses with stones. There were stone tables, stone cupboards, stone chairs and even stone beds! They had a fireplace in the middle of the room so it's wasn't cold. 3. The beach Skara Brae was near the sea. The sea was very important to the people of Skara Brae. They ate lots of fish and shellfish. Some times there were a whales. Then they were very happy! They ate the meat and made toys and musical instruments from the bones. They also picked up wood from the beach. They made tools and sculptures from the wood. 4. The workshop One of the houses in Skara Brae was a workshop. They don't make coins because they don't have money but they made ceramic bowls for eating and ceramic pots for cooking. They also made knives and tools from the farm. They even made necklaces and small sculptures.
Just a thought. There seems to be a pattern of greater innovation where people could gather for longer periods of time. Perhaps due to established civil laws of some greater form. Could these inhabitants have left because of civil unrest before any natural causes threatened them? Utterly fascinating 👏.
@caradoc68 Thanks for your comment! Yes I did notice, very interesting. My initial thoughts were a storage place for personal objects. However it could simply be a quirk of construction. Like assigning meaning to the spaces between the uprights at the head/ foot of someone's bed. Well spotted though! I only noticed 'cos I was staring at the picture for ten minutes or so while editing the piece. Thanks for watching!
we inherit our knowledge these people(along with Egyptians and Greeks) wrote the book on books! they figured it out without prior knowledge. ever try and install a toilet without training and no plumbing background. that is how they felt all the time in the midst of duress and survival hinging on things.
Very interesting. I'm taking an on-line course in pre-history, Skara Brae came up a few weeks a go. We had a little discussion about bedding and what they would have used. looking at your video l just noticed two shelves inside of the bigger of the two beds, did you notice this? and what did you think there were used for ??.
Do you think this level of technology was indicitive of the time? Also off topic but i figured i ask, people credit several species of primate with the technology of fire but do you think the other species ( id assume neanderthal ) were in posession of the technolgy of man like jewlery baskets huts and maybe use of mud/clay? I often think many of the technologies might hve came from different species of hominid. Sorry for any misspellings i got my second dose of moderna and its not fun.
By carbon dating on the charcoal in the cooking grates the age is pretty accurately 5,000ybp, a little bit older than the Pharaohs. At Maes Howe there is a small burial pyramid. Did the Pharaohs copy them? When it was 1.5degC warmer then than now, the sealevel could not have been above its present level, otherwise the charcoal would have floated away. Archaeology confounds the global warming theory.
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Lovely report mate. Thank you.
Great, great video about a fascinating subject!
Amazing how much knowledge is untapped and how various groups were evolving all around the world in what we now call the bronze age and fascinating how the elements that destroyed the village revealed it again after all those years!
Amazing
Great video, thanks for sharing!
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Skara brae
A village from prehistory
In Scotland, there are some islands called Orkney. One day, there was a big storm and it was very windy. The wind moved the sand. The next day the people of Orkney saw an old village under the sand. It was more than five thousand years old!!! It's name was Skara Brae. Now it's a museum. The people of prehistory didn't read or write, but we now a lot about them from their houses and their objects. Let's read about how families lived in Skara Brae.
1. Houses
There were eight houses in Skara Brae. There were passages with a roof from one house to the next. This was very good idea. Orkney is very cold and windy! In winter, people went down the passages to visit their friends.
2. Inside house
There were any threes in Skara Brae so people made everything inside their houses with stones. There were stone tables, stone cupboards, stone chairs and even stone beds! They had a fireplace in the middle of the room so it's wasn't cold.
3. The beach
Skara Brae was near the sea. The sea was very important to the people of Skara Brae. They ate lots of fish and shellfish. Some times there were a whales. Then they were very happy! They ate the meat and made toys and musical instruments from the bones. They also picked up wood from the beach. They made tools and sculptures from the wood.
4. The workshop
One of the houses in Skara Brae was a workshop. They don't make coins because they don't have money but they made ceramic bowls for eating and ceramic pots for cooking. They also made knives and tools from the farm. They even made necklaces and small sculptures.
They may have gone to the continent of America in a ship as Noah did... God sent them a miracle to travel to the continent of America
This was wonderful! I watched it twice.
Truly awesome.
Just a thought. There seems to be a pattern of greater innovation where people could gather for longer periods of time. Perhaps due to established civil laws of some greater form. Could these inhabitants have left because of civil unrest before any natural causes threatened them? Utterly fascinating 👏.
@caradoc68 Thanks for your comment!
Yes I did notice, very interesting. My initial thoughts were a storage place for personal objects.
However it could simply be a quirk of construction. Like assigning meaning to the spaces between the uprights at the head/ foot of someone's bed.
Well spotted though! I only noticed 'cos I was staring at the picture for ten minutes or so while editing the piece.
Thanks for watching!
we inherit our knowledge these people(along with Egyptians and Greeks) wrote the book on books! they figured it out without prior knowledge. ever try and install a toilet without training and no plumbing background. that is how they felt all the time in the midst of duress and survival hinging on things.
1:25 . . . apparently Skara Brae was also the site of an early production of "HAIR". More historically significant than I thought . . .
MooPotPie -Hysterical 😢
thank you for this...
Cool
Wow very interesting i found out a lot wow you’re so interesting
Very interesting. I'm taking an on-line course in pre-history, Skara Brae came up a few weeks a go. We had a little discussion about bedding and what they would have used.
looking at your video l just noticed two shelves inside of the bigger of the two beds, did you notice this? and what did you think there were used for ??.
Back then, when it was 1.5degC warmer (Greenland icecore results) trees maybe did grow there.
Good
Did the people live to be 900 years old as in the book of Genesis?
All those years ago the village would have been at least one mile in land ...
Do you think this level of technology was indicitive of the time? Also off topic but i figured i ask, people credit several species of primate with the technology of fire but do you think the other species ( id assume neanderthal ) were in posession of the technolgy of man like jewlery baskets huts and maybe use of mud/clay? I often think many of the technologies might hve came from different species of hominid. Sorry for any misspellings i got my second dose of moderna and its not fun.
I watched this in my class 5
Has anything been done to keep the village from disappearing once again in a future big storm?
There is a concrete sea wall I believe
What is Skara Brae Age?
When was it Designed?
Pls awster;-;
Blak
During the new stone age
By carbon dating on the charcoal in the cooking grates the age is pretty accurately 5,000ybp, a little bit older than the Pharaohs. At Maes Howe there is a small burial pyramid. Did the Pharaohs copy them?
When it was 1.5degC warmer then than now, the sealevel could not have been above its present level, otherwise the charcoal would have floated away. Archaeology confounds the global warming theory.
That we know of
I watched this video for school
i did to!!
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Our Scottish aborigines were way ahead of some others.
Looks like only children could live there😂 it's all so small🤷