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30. Suppositions

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Hello!!

First of all, I have to say that I don't have any formation about archaeology. I like it very much but I don't have too much knowledges about that science. I'm doing this because I'm in love with Orkney (deeply in love; any other place of the few I known in the world attracted me as much as Orkney) and because there are lots of things I can't find explanation to understand it.

I'm going to expose my suppositions about the age of the Ness of Brodgar (and all the zone around it) because there are a lot of things that I can't fit in the chronology I organised about that wonderful place.

I'm going to correct my comments and contribute with other ones little by little, and correcting the ones which have wrong information.

I would like to know, too, if possible, the conditions of Orkney after the tsunami: if water was deep enough to allow the transport of huge stones from the quarry next to Skara Brae to the Stones of Stennes, because the kind of stone which the Stones of Stenness are done is the rock from that quarry. I think that the transport from the quarry to Stenness wasn't by boat. And that makes me to have a doubt about the age of the Ness of Brodgar, the Stones of Stenness and the effectivity of radicarbon dating. CONFIRMED WITH THE COMMENT IN THE NEXT PARAGRAPH.

I have found confirmation about my theory (obviously recognizing that I'm not an specialist in this subject). This confirmation says: "... prior to around 1500BC, the Stenness loch didn't exist" (http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/brodgar/building.htm). Then, the rocks from Vestrafiold were transported by land. That confirmation makes me think that was is today the Loch of Stenness was a place with huge population and that confirms, again, why in the Ness of Brodgar have been found lots of bones of dead animals eated in some celebration there.

The route from Vestrafiold to The Stones of Stenness (a little bit difficult to drag the stones because ... "the area was wet marshy bog, surrounding pools of water or lochans. Not the best landscape to be dragging massive megaliths through&quot .
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9wbtU2b0_z6dk9CSzNEbVRMX1E/view?usp=sharing
(the previous link is accessible if you have a gmail account)