Skara Brae’s stone houses show complex Neolithic life in Scotland
Skara Brae, a Neolithic village on Orkney’s windswept coast, was built around 3000 B.C.E. and still stands in remarkable detail today. Its ten stone houses held built-in dressers, beds, and covered drains, sunk into insulating mounds of domestic waste. Five thousand years on, it quietly dismantles the idea that prehistoric life was ever simple.