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When I was a little kid (1950) Skara Brae was just open to run around; my sis played house.

As kids back in the 1950s my sister and I could wander around inside Skara Brae.

And I definitely remember mapping out all the dungeons and Skara Brae on graph paper.

A quick look at the Wikipedia article for Skara Brae mentions that pottery, flint and ashes have been found at the site which certainly suggests they had fire.

In all seriousness, I had no idea until just now that Skara Brae was a real place, and not just a setting for tales sung by bards.

Also we have The Neolithic village at Skara Brae (The site was occupied from roughly 3180 BC to about 2500 BC and is Europe's most complete Neolithic village).

As part of our work in deploying the Natick datacenter to the Orkneys, we had the opportunity to visit Skara Brae, as well as the other Neolithic sites.

The people who built Skara Brae had more advanced architecture than the Romans did (at least, they had better drains, and understood things like septic tanks and keeping drainage away from water supplies).

> The people who built Skara Brae had more advanced architecture than the Romans did But why did they put so many spinner traps and magic mouths in the perfectly rectilinear, monster-filled maze underneath the town?

I find the buildings at Skara Brae interesting because they are more human scale (beds and other furniture) and were where people actually lived for many hundreds of years - quite a bit before the pyramids at Giza at least.

Project Skara appears to consider this a two step process [1]: > The goal of this Project is to investigate alternative SCM and code review options for the JDK source code, including options based upon Git rather than Mercurial, and including options hosted by third parties.

The original title of the submission is: "Skara: Creating the massively online beat'em up" Why change it just for the sake of evangelizing a particular platform?

Skara Brae is amazing: it's a very freaky feeling standing in something still recognisable as a home after four thousand years.

Skara Brae is in an amazing part of the world for neolithic monuments - Maeshowe, the Ring of Brodgar and lots of others.

Skara Brae is both smaller than you think it should be (studied it in primary school) and more impressive (over 5000 years old).