Who Were Neolithic Orkney’s GROOVED WARE People?

[@jamesaspinall803]

Interesting - I didn’t know the houses were built into midden, I thought it was an odd choice (who wants to build a home on rubbish?!) but research suggests it provided stability and insulation. A friend of mine thinks the carved stone balls may have been a demonstration of skill - the more intricate and complex, the better the skills of the mason. I think they had a function but it would explain their good condition - maybe one day we’ll know for sure. Thanks for all your research!

[@MegalithHunter]

I also thought the rubbish tip seemed bizarre but I guess it’s practical. Am reading a book on the stone balls. Really interesting.

[@stuartparker1068]

More well researched facts into our ancient past, keep them coming!

[@MegalithHunter]

Thank you!

[@barrywalser2384]

Orkney is just an amazing location. I want to visit it some day. So remote and yet, at least somewhat, ahead of it’s time. Really enjoyed this one. Thanks for all you do Laura!

[@MegalithHunter]

Me too but I don’t think I can handle the weather! Haha

[@barrywalser2384]

@@MegalithHunter That’s why I say “visit”. 😂

[@MegalithHunter]

@@barrywalser2384 hahaha!

[@ZiggyDan]

I can't help but compare the 'furniture' to almost identical structures inside some of the Temples on Malta. Great newscast, thanks for posting.

[@MegalithHunter]

I also thought that the structures at the Barnhouse Settlement had a very similar layout to the temples!

[@ajkaajka2512]

I came to write the same thing about the furniture only to find out you beat me to it.

[@ZiggyDan]

@@ajkaajka2512 ... I remember seeing a similar type Cot/Bed at Mnajdra Temple.

[@ajkaajka2512]

I know, me too. It was exciting to be there in Malta and then to see something like that in this video about Scotland.

[@paoloviti6156]

As always a very interesting video regarding Neolithic Orkney stone constructions. Unfortunately those people left us no writing of any kind, a problem with many civilization of this period. So it will be without any doubt we shall never know no matter how much archeology it will be done but sadly it will remains a conjecture. Good job again 👍 👍👍👍

[@MegalithHunter]

I still dream we will find a lost language from that time!

[@paoloviti6156]

@@MegalithHunter I really wish so too especially for people like you but apparently writing has came so late in our general history but somehow archeology seems to place writing no earlier than 3,000 bc even if there are traces of earlier primitive writing that remains un-deciphered...

[@floydriebe4755]

hi, Laura! just catching up with this one. i never even turned this thing on, yesterday. temps are cooler this week so i've been busy outdoors. yay! Skara Brae, Ness of Brodgar and other sites in the Orkneys are so fascinating. i've, watched, read, or listened to every thing i could find in regard to the sites there. so many actual living quarters with nearby ritualistic or astronomical structures or what have you, gives us a glimpse into the every day life of the inhabitants. sssoooo cool! can't wait for your next video, darlin! later, Lauragator!

[@MegalithHunter]

Ooh fantastic! You get outside and enjoy! Orkney is quite something with all these sites!

[@floydriebe4755]

@@MegalithHunter please miss, s'more?

[@vulpesvulpes5177]

I like your videos. I’m subscribed. And more. What frustrates me about formal archeology is that nobody asks WHY? Why live in a remote cold place? Why do you live on Malta. Why do I live in Tennessee? We all answer this question for ourselves in our chosen place. But we fail to ask that about ancient places. World wide the human population tends toward a temperate climate, and reasonably close to a coastal zone. Better to be too warm than too cold. So why do a few souls cling to the remote and cold places. Maybe it was warmer or better there in some way. Clearly they managed to eat. I don’t expect you to conjure an answer from thin air. You do very well with the factual. But at some point we need to segue into the philosophical realm of WHY. Just my thoughts. Let’s see what you do with “alignments” in our next exciting episode! Fox out.

[@ZiggyDan]

The Gulf Stream makes it warmer. It compares with the Southern coastal temperatures. But it's a lot stormier.

[@vulpesvulpes5177]

@@ZiggyDan Ok. Look at that. By that latitude the gulf current has dumped its heat energy, has formed a sinking density current and is set to move cold dense water south in the eastern Atlantic. This has been true way back to before the younger dryas. Summers may be possible as they are farther south. Winters are bitter cold things. Today and 6000 years ago to the best of our reckoning. That’s what the earth buried house style tells us. Maybe there were too many people farther south. Or constant war. Or a plague. Or they had lived there for so many generations that it was “home”. For whatever reason they chose to stay there. As we study people on this and other channels we study a genus that had no problem with moving on. So what did those norther islands offer. Not nice weather. Storms is an understatement. Rationalizing “it’s not so bad….” And making a positive statement are not the same. They clearly made a positive choice. They stayed for 100 generations maybe more. But WHY? Fox out

[@barrywalser2384]

Hey Fox! Good points! It has crossed my mind that these people were ahead of their time and yet they chose to live in a very remote location.

[@vulpesvulpes5177]

@@barrywalser2384 Hi pal. Exactly. A sunken stone house. With some elegant central heating. Separate bedrooms. Built in shelves. Stuff that would not be common in other places for Millenia. These were not stupid people too dumb to come in out of the cold. They were either there for something or to avoid something elsewhere. I’m thinking that was a great place to hide out. Until the threat diminished or they got “found”. Then they just abruptly left. Figure that out and you get a big insight not only about the Orkney’s but about all the lands to the south. But hey! What do I know? I’m only a fox….out.

[@barrywalser2384]

@@vulpesvulpes5177 It is very intriguing. A head scratcher. Maybe it was some sort of hideout.

[@cliffordfreeman7829]

Great intresting video.

[@madderhat5852]

I can't conceive the slaughter of so much livestock. That's the village larder and wealth. Maybe it's a case of 'we can't take it with us ,as well as ceremonial. I wonder what the climate patterns were around the time of the leaving of the villages.

[@MegalithHunter]

I guess if they were moving far away they couldn’t travel with the cattle. Or maybe winters were becoming too harsh to take care of them. It’s quite strange!

[@freefall9832]

The stone balls may have been involved in some kind of game. Evidently they enjoyed games.

[@DylanTheMattressMan]

I know what those balls are for

[@asashoryuLapisphilosophorum]

greetings, looks like southern american seafaring people, same gold culture and object etc?????