“You are standing in a high, dim stone vault. There is a thick soundlessness, as in a recording studio, or a strongroom.”
—Kathleen Jamie visits Maeshowe chambered cairn at midwinter, for the London Review of Books, 2003
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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v25/n24/kathleen-jamie/into-the-dark
#Scottish #literature #midwinter #solstice #Orkney #archaeology #prehistory #neolithic
"Then, suddenly, in a five to seven thousand year burst, no fewer than seven locations independently developed #agriculture. These locations did not adopt agriculture from one another, were not engaged in long-distance #trade with each other, and weren’t even related by conquest; there was no #culturalexchange that explains how all of these places took to the plough and the field simultaneously, and yet they did."
#Neolithic #Archaeology
https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/from-caveman-to-chinaman
