Who lived here?

This cluster of strange stone structures were part of the landscape here in the Bay of Skaill, Orkney, long before Stonehenge and the pyramids of Egypt were built. Skara Brae is the best-preserved example of a Neolithic (or new Stone Age) settlement in western Europe, thought to have been built and occupied sometime between 3000 and 2700 BCE. Around that time, people in Britain started farming and they began to build permanent homes.
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