A reconstruction drawing of villagers at Skara Brae. Skara Brae was the home of a Neolithic farming community. The people who lived here were able to grow some crops. They kept cows, sheep and pigs.

But highly staged. She says: "Everybody on site is looking towards Gordon Childe", who led the excavation of Skara Brae in 1928 and 1929. The Neolithic village at the Bay of Skaill on the west ...

But despite Skara Brae’s immaculate preservation, researchers still don’t know why it was abandoned. Before its discovery, ...