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tiompan T
tiompan Nov 9, 2008 23:56:04
Replying to GordonP

GordonP wrote:
25 is the number I've uncovered via Google. Sometimes the media fit the story to what is expected.

Sometimes archaeologists do the same, take Skara Brae, the settlement is thought to have been the home of some 55 souls yet the archaeologists say the Ring of Broger points to the settlement being part of a much more complex society, why, because they cannot imagine the stone circle being built by so few people. Yet they have no idea at all how many souls would have been needed for it's construction.

I got the impression it was simply MPP exaggerating .
Barnhouse which is closer had 15 houses and the Ness of Brodgar looks like there was even more , adjoining the monuments

B baza
baza Nov 10, 2008 18:01:42
Replying to tiompan

I visited the dig and went on a tour around the site led by MPP.

At the time,while standing on one of the floors, he swept his hand around and speculated that there could have been hundreds of houses within the local landscape. We don't know; we can only count those which we have found, but there's plenty of room for more.