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Re: Britain's Ancient Capital: Secrets Of Orkney
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Evergreen Dazed wrote:
tiompan wrote:
The first settlers on Orkney ,post glaciation , like much of the UK would have had to have come from mainland Europe or in the case of Orkney maybe mainland Scotland . The Orkney vole is a potential clue ,although possibly belonging to a later immigration than the earlier ones .
Not a lot of Mesolithic bone but plenty of later examples which might provide a clue to the source of the various immigrations . Today there is a big Nordic / Scandinavian influence in the local genes but that might not have been the case with the earliest waves of immigration which may/more likely have come from further south and East , one day we may know for sure .



Do you know of anything S/E that could be considered precursor to Unstan ware?


Achnacreebeag is interesting in this respect.


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Evergreen Dazed
Posted by Evergreen Dazed
15th January 2017ce
11:56

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