Orkney contains some of Europe’s best-preserved Neolithic archaeology: stone villages, chambered tombs, ceremonial buildings and monuments constructed between the early fourth and late third millennia BCE.

Mark Edmonds places sites such as Skara Brae, Maeshowe, the Ring of Brodgar and the Ness of Brodgar back inside the landscape that produced them, tracing the movement of people, livestock, stone and stories between islands connected to Britain, Ireland and continental Europe.

Houses echo tombs; stone quarried from different parts of the archipelago binds monuments to particular places; hearths, tools and food remains reveal domestic life alongside ceremony, exchange and hierarchy. He also follows the long afterlife of these sites through Norse renaming, antiquarian excavation, agricultural damage and modern archaeology. 

Apollo paperback, 2021. Very good condition with light shelf wear.