Scottish Prehistory

Abstract

NORTH Scottish prehistory has not perhaps always received much attention at the hands of non-Scottish prehistorians. This has been largely due to the geographical position of the country, which has been assumed to have been rather at the end of the world, at least until the arrival of the Scandinavian sea-raiders in historical times. It is probable, however, that the north of Scotland was by no means thus always ‘the back of beyond’; and in this area, as well as in the nearby islands, there lived folk whose culture, though simple, was both interesting to the student and not entirely autochthonous in growth. The present book deals with a series of explorations and excavations made under the supervision of Prof. V. G. Childe in the prehistoric village of Skara Brae, in Orkney, which was in process of being conserved by H.M. Office of Works at the time.

Skara Brae: a Pictish Village in Orkney.

By Prof. V. Gordon Childe. With Chapters by Prof. T. H. Bryce and Prof. D. M. S. Watson. Pp. xiii + 208 + 63 plates. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1931.) 31s. 6d. net.