Neolithic houses in Orkney, built over 5,000 years ago. New research suggests that female Bronze Age immigrants were integrated into existing households
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During the Bronze Age, an influx of immigrants significantly altered the population of the archipelago of Orkney. It was a dramatic change – and, unusually, incomers who settled and had children were predominantly women, a new study suggests.