Art of Neolithic Orkney
The Ancients
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The Importance of Art in the Making of Stones
Many of the carvings are actually low down in corners or very low to the ground where they certainly wouldn't have been seen by everybody. But it does speak to the domestic scale of the building where perhaps people would have been sat at a lower level and it's where they would have made these marks. So do you think that there could well be with art a communal aspect to the creation of this art, to decorating these stones and putting them in places like scarabary? As you say, could that be almost as important as to where they were finally placed? I think so.
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