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on Solaripedia. While the residents disappeared eons ago, their
stone houses have endured the ravages of the sea and time only
to be exhumed 5,000 years later. Skara Brae is a stone-built
ten-home cluster forming a Neolithic settlement located on the
west coast of Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. It was occupied from
roughly 3180 BCE–2500 BCE. At 5,000 years old, Skara Brae is the
best preserved prehistoric village in Northern Europe. The site
was continuously occupied for approximately 600 years (about
3100-2500 BCE), providing unique evidence of the daily life in
the Orkneys in the late Neolithic era. Skara Brae is semi-
subterranean, with village houses linked by a series of low
passageways. It was settled within an old refuse heap - a
kitchen midden usually associated with a semi-sedentary
Mesolithic lifestyle – probably due to the insulative value of
the refuse that may have been accumulating for a thousand years.
Most of the household furniture a