Art of Neolithic Orkney
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Located in the Northern Isles of Scotland, Orkney is a remote and wild environment. With over 5000 years of history, this small archipelago of islands is a treasure trove of ancient sites and secrets.
Today Tristan is joined by Archaeologist Dr Antonia Thomas to talk about the art in some of the incredible sites and excavations across Orkney. Touching on famous locations like Skara Brae, or the legendary tomb Maeshowe, what can neolithic art tell us about the lives of the people who lived there 5000 years ago?
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| 0:00.0 | It's the entrance on History Hit. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm Tristan Schuss, your host and in today's podcast where we're going to the north of |
| 0:16.4 | the British Arles. |
| 0:17.4 | We're going to an island, a group of islands that has a remarkable prehistory in the |
| 0:24.0 | Iron Age in the Bronze Age, but most famously in the Stone Age, in the Neolithic. |
| 0:29.6 | I am of course talking about Orkney. |
| 0:33.2 | Recently History Hit, myself and a small team of people from History Hit, including Annie |
| 0:38.3 | and Matt, where we headed up to Orkney to film a documentary, a documentary all about |
| 0:44.1 | Orkney's Neolithic past, but also looking at this Iron Age as well. |
| 0:48.6 | We've always got some fantastic rocks up there. |
| 0:51.4 | All of that is coming to History Hit soon for our upcoming, very excited about this, |
| 0:57.2 | our upcoming prehistoric Scotland series. |
| 1:00.6 | Stay tuned for all of that. |
| 1:02.2 | We've got a podcast to wet your appetite in the meantime though, because we've got one |
| 1:07.7 | of our contributors from this upcoming series with us on the podcast day. |
| 1:13.0 | Her name is Doctap Antonia Thomas. |
| 1:16.3 | She is an archaeologist. |
| 1:18.6 | She focuses in on prehistoric art. |
| 1:21.2 | She's done a lot of work on Neolithic Orkney, on Neolithic art, on the early farmers |
| 1:26.7 | and Neolithic Orkney. |
| 1:28.2 | She's a wonderful speaker. |
| 1:29.2 | It was great to have her on the TV programme and it was great. |
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