"Ness of Brodgar - the true Heart of Neolithic Orkney?" by Nick Card, ORCA
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- Lecture by Nick Card MA MIfA FSA Scot, Director of the Ness of Brodgar and Senior Project Manager Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology, on the excavations at the Neolithic site at Ness of Brodgar, in the Orkney Islands World Heritage Site.
The Ness is a massive Neolithic walled enclosure that contains numerous well preserved monumental stone buildings on an unparalleled scale -best known from its media coverage as Orkney’s 'Neolithic Cathedral'.
This multi-award winning excavation lies at the heart of one of the richest archaeological landscapes in the world, the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site (WHS) between the great stone circles of the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness, and in close proximity to Maeshowe, the finest Neolithic tomb in Northern Europe.
To learn more about this amazing site please visit the Ness of Brodgar on Orkneyjar for dig diaries, plans, photographs and much more.
Recorded at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 16 March 2013.
Its just incredible the sophistication of these early communities.
Brilliant lecture. Thankyou so much!
Great talk, but would have appreciated not having so much of the slides blocked out by the corner video. Viewers missed a lot of useful information in the slides and captions when the video of the speaker covered them up. Any chance of an edit and re-post without including that corner video?
Yes, that´s why i stopped watching at minute 6. It is disturbing, not to see whole pictures and maps.
I can’t wait to go! I am descended from the original Moody family. I am so grateful to be able to learn about my history from across the world. Thank you for sharing this video.
Just amazing. My Ancestors 😊❤
Truly fascinating _ thank you
thank you .I missed this lecture when nick was in st. Louis recently. I think Orkney is the most beautiful spot on earth, unspoiled and so full of history.where's my trowel!♡
I agree! Wonderful, fascinating place! We were fortunate to have a friend who lived there and we went to stay with him. One of my favourite places!
Not a lot of comments, surprisingly. An amazing site, unknown for 5,000 years. Takes the breath away. That civilisation lasted a thousand years. Any bets if ours will last that long?
It seems to me that a site such as what evolved at Brodgar may have been the heart of connected communities much farther afield than just the Orkneys. It must surely have been a center known wide and far throughout the British Isles, and Scandinavia in all likeliness. Pre-dating and likely seeding the culture which resulted in Stonehenge, and all pre-dating the pyramids.
It will certainly be interesting as various finds are investigated and examined, that there will likely be items made far from the Orkeneys themselves? And too, it may then be as likely, items made at the likes of Brodegar may be found elsewhere far and wide.
It fills you with a really unsettling, yet beautiful chill up one's spine each time more is revealed about these sort of sites, and re-writes what we think of these so called ''primitive'' people. To me there is nothing primitive about this highly efficient way of life with minimal technology as we know it. Everything that lay around them was their technology: Stone, grass, bark, wood, plant fibres, clay, sinews, bones, an so on.
Once the Ness is covered over for the last time this summer, archaeologists will have enough material for potentially decades of post-excavation analysis! It is truly an exciting time.
Wish I could go there😢 I'm in Australia
Are there any thoughts about why this is built precisely where it is?
There are pre-flood ritual sites beneath. !!!
@@Rubin_Schmidt which flood?
@@elizabethford7263 The flood of 10950 BC caused by a comet striking the earth which wiped out most civilisations.
www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/04/21/ancient-stone-carvings-confirm-comet-struck-earth-10950bc-wiping/
There's no scientific basis to back that up. There were also no civilizations back then.
Structure 10 , with the four 'dressers', one of my imaginings suggests, a temporary receptacle for de fleshed human remains, another nothing at all. Ritual and ceremony is very human .
Have you considered where the cattle came from via teeth analysis? One estimate of the cattle eaten was as high as 900 - who,what type of society, scale, type could mobilise the logistics involved in owning a herd that size. Teeth analysis is essential first. If not local then from how faraway- these questions will shed light on the nature of the closedown- benign or being invaded for eg. If local where were a 1000 cattle grazed, fed, housed. What ecological evidence of intense stock rearing is there via soul analysis- i doubt theres a 1000 cattle on the island even now with factory farms.
Then the issue of fuel to cook so many animals in a short period. Think of the ash piles at the closedown?
Loads of questions- all stimulated by the far traveled animals found at woodhenge. If there then why not here seeing animals from far north reached there. That too would support a peaceful closing
All the best
The notched slab could be the bucket of a jcb left by time team and one of their delicate digs. That was just a delicate dig.