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   Archaeo-Histories (archaeohistories@ohai.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 17:28:58 JST Archaeo-Histories

   In 1850, a farmer found a secret village. It was later determined to be older than the Great Pyramids of Egypt. Archeologists estimated that 100 people lived in this village named Skara Brae, the "Scottish Pompeii." The houses were connected to each other by tunnels, and each house could be closed off with a stone door.

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     gidi (gidi@friendica.gidikroon.eu)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 17:42:52 JST gidi

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     @archaeohistories I remember from a documentary I once saw about this site (with caveats for a faulty memory) that at a time when people were mostly nomadic, only two (known) places existed in Britain where people lived permanently: near Stonehenge and in Skara Brae and other people may have travelled north and south between them.

     What I thought was the most interesting detail is that when you enter one of these stone houses, the wall opposite the door has shelves inset in the stone wall, clearly intended to show off prized possessions to visitors. We have not changed...

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     Unpartitioned Variance 50% off (guyjantic@c.im)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 20:38:06 JST Unpartitioned Variance 50% off

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     @gidi @archaeohistories If I lived in one of those houses, the shelves would be partly for show and tell, and party for dumping whatever was in my pockets from the day, especially stuff I'd need the next day. I guess they didn't carry around house keys, though.

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