5,000-year-old Neolithic art found in Orkney dig

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9. Well of course

What has always amazed me is that there were people at all in what must have been, at that, time, some pretty inhospitable places in northern climes. For me, the idea of setting up shop in the Orkneys long ago when I could have been living in a place like Uruk -- well, the tracks of human migration have always puzzled me.
I participated in the Genographic Project which tracked my mother's people from the area of modern day Lebanon to where her people eventually ended up, in the old territory of Prussia near the Baltic Sea. The only thing my gr-grandmother had to say about it (she left when a small girl) was that it was so damn cold she was glad to get out. I would imagine winters aren't much better in the Orkneys, which leads me to wonder who the people were that migrated to such a place, and why.