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A new DNA study is shining light on Bronze Age Orkney. The results show how an influx of mostly women affected family traditions and spiritual customs on the island. However, some scientists are having none of it. Around 4,500 years ago, Bronze Age farmers on Orkney, the island group off the north coast of Scotland, […]
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Bronze Age Orkney Welcomed Female Migrants, Claims Controversial Paper
April 5th, 2022 
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No Comments »“Rare, Exciting and Complex” Mayback Viking Sword Discovered On Orkney
December 11th, 2021 Awake Goy Among several finds at a Viking burial site on Papa Westray, Orkney, is “a rare, exciting, and complex artifact” – a Mayback sword in the form of a Pedersen Type D, associated with the 9th century. The find from 2015 is now being carefully examined for post-excavation work, and it is confirmed to be one […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: complex, discovered, exciting, mayback, orkney, sword, viking No Comments »A renewable energy boom on Orkney
July 26th, 2021 Awake Goy A renewable energy boom on Orkney Posted on July 25, 2021 by beyondnuclearinternational Small windswept islands will supply other countries with surplus Editor’s Note: In April, we ran a story about how the people of Orkney rejected plans to mine uranium on the islands. Here is how that wise decision has paid off. The archipelago is rich […]
Neolithic Fingerprints In Orkney Offer ‘Unparalleled Glimpse’ of Life
June 17th, 2021 Awake Goy The Neolithic fingerprints of two young male potters have been identified on a 5,000-year-old fragment of clay discovered in Orkney. In April this year The Press and Journal announced that archaeologists excavating at the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site discovered a “5,000 years old” finger print on the surface of a clay vessel. […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: fingerprints, glimpse, neolithic, offer, orkney, unparalleled No Comments »Orkney Quernstone Points To Settlement 500 Years Older Than Skara Brae
April 29th, 2021 Awake Goy Archaeologists exploring on Orkney, the far-flung archipelago of the north east coast of Scotland, have discovered a settlement that they believe to be older than the world renowned Skara Brae Neolithic Village. Skara Brae is the famous stone-built Neolithic settlement on the west coast of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland. […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: older, orkney, points, quernstone, settlement, skara, years No Comments »Did The Roman Empire Reach The Brochs Of Orkney?
April 8th, 2021 Awake Goy Greatly simplified, one of the primary reasons for the decline of the Roman empire was its rapid expansion, and ultimately its vast size became too expensive to manage effectively and it fell to external, as well as internal forces. From its origins in a small Italian city the empire would come to control all of what is […]
Stepping Back in Time at Skara Brae: A Neolithic Settlement in the Heart of Prehistoric Orkney
January 8th, 2021 Awake Goy In 1850, a fierce storm hit the Bay o’ Skaill on the main island of the Orkney island archipelago. In doing so, it ripped grass from a hill, then known as Skerrabra, to reveal the remnants of an ancient stone house. Further investigations revealed that the hill and its immediate vicinity had once been the […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: heart, neolithic, orkney, prehistoric, settlement, skara, stepping No Comments »Microsoft Sinks Data Centre Off Orkney
June 6th, 2018 Awake Goy Microsoft Sinks Data Centre Off Orkney June 6th, 2018 I don’t really buy the explanations given in the article. This is way too much hassle for cooling efficiencies. EMP-proof data repositories? The water would fully attenuate the effects of an EMP attack. Hmm… Also, […]
The Fusioneers
May 27th, 2016 Awake Goy The Fusioneers May 26th, 2016 Via: Washington Post: At first glance, the outbuilding attached to Richard Hull’s Richmond home looks like any lean-to built by a retiree with time on his hands: a slap-dash affair with wood that appears salvaged from home projects gone […]
