The remains of one of the Neolithic houses from Skara Brae on Orkney, with its famous dresser. Occupied from around 3100 to 2500 BC, the prehistoric settlement is one of the best preserved in the British Isles. 📸 My own. #WallsOnWednesday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Orkney

The secrets of Soran: A 7,000-year-old discovery Archaeologists have uncovered remnants of the Halaf civilization, dating back 7,000 years, in Soran, northeast of the Kurdistan Region. #Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod

I used many of these resources while writing The Village of Bones, The Year the Horses Came, The Horses at the Gate, and The Fires of Spring. tinyurl.com/2x4kswew #AuthorInspiration #WritingCommunity #AuthorResources

Ulucak Höyük: A recent and rare find from one of the most prominent and oldest Neolithic sites in Türkiye – a clay statuette of a female figurine, dated to ~6000BCE. One of the oldest sites in Western Anatolia. The first settlement in the mound dates back to 8850 years ago.

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History tells us about a time when humans mostly foraged in tribes (often nomadically) before becoming subsistence farmers and beginning agriculture - the cultivation of crops. tinyurl.com/ycywd7k9 #Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod

"Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought." - Albert Szent-Györgyi #CreativeProcess #creativity

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Have a happy and safe 4th of July. #4thOfJuly

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“Sometimes we just need to put down our phones, close our eyes, and take a few deep breaths. Ideas are often in flight patterns around our brains, just waiting for clearance to land.” – Sam Harrison #relax #SundayMood

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Nine stone mounds in Lake Zug raise questions tinyurl.com/yns6jzr6 #Neolithic #NeolithicPeriod #NeolithicEurope

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Remains of the small chambered tomb of Carreg Coetan Arthur in Pembrokeshire. Dating to the Neolithic, the tomb is one of several burial sites located on the slopes of the Nevern Valley. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Pembrokeshire

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Mirabai The Mystical Indian Poet Who Married God Whenever I read the ecstatic love poems of Mirabai, I emerge elated, inspired, and awed. bit.ly/3DCOhkA #PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetryTwitter

“Suspension” At nine in the evening when the light was long and the air still tasted of dust hot as ashes we went into the river together open-mouthed and naked to consider the proposition that air was not worth breathing excerpt tinyurl.com/msasv36f #PoetryTwitter