I hate cold. I can’t imagine why any sentient being would elect to live in Siberia. Or Point Barrow. I’ve been as far north as John O’ Groats, but the Orkneys were always just a few degrees (Fahrenheit & latitude) too far for comfort. To paraphrase Mark Twain, he coldest winter I’ve ever spent was a summer on the Isle of Skye.
But what amazes me about the Orneys is that Neolithic culture, the hinges and the like, spread south from there, not the other way around.
I hardly can imagine a more hostile environment this side of the moon, yet they obviuusly had a sophisticated civilization.
Buurrrrrr!
Yeah, it’s gotta be difficult. Probably shows that it was preferable to whatever even worse spot they’d come from. By boat?
The Orkney people were unique in one other way. In the rest os Britain the population was replaced with male DNA from the continent and mated with original female DNA from the native Britons. In Orkney it was the other way around.