furniture
art deco A range of unique stone furniture has been excavated in Skara Brae, a Neolithic village located in Orkney. The site dates from 3100–2500 BC and due to a shortage of wood in Orkney, the people of Skara Brae were forced to build with stone, a readily available material that could be worked easily and turned into items for use within the household. Each house shows a high degree of sophistication and was equipped with an extensive assortment of
stone furniture, ranging from cupboards, dressers and beds to shelves, stone seats, and limpet tanks. The stone dresser was regarded as the most important as it symbolically faces the entrance in each house and is therefore the first item seen when entering, perhaps displaying symbolic objects, including decorative artwork such as several Neolithic Carved Stone Balls also found at the site.
furniture
art deco Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping.
Furniture is the mass noun for
stone, a readily available
the movable objects
material that could be
intended to support various
worked easily and turned
human activities such as
into items for use within the
seating and sleeping.
household. Each house
A range of unique stone
shows a high degree of
furniture has been excavat-
sophistication and was
ed in Skara Brae, a Neolithic
equipped with an extensive
village located in Orkney.
assortment of stone furniture,
The site dates from
ranging from cupboards,
3100–2500 BC and due to a
dressers and b
the people of Skara Brae
shelves, stone seats, and
were forced to build with
limpet tanks. The stone
eds to
Furniture is the mass noun for
were forced to build with
the movable objects
stone, a readily available
intended to support various
material that could be
human activities such as
worked easily and turned
seating and sleeping.
into items for use within the
A range of unique stone
household. Each house
furniture has been excavat-
shows a high degree of
ed in Skara Brae, a Neolithic
sophistication and was
village located in Orkney.
equipped with an extensive
The site dates from
assortment of stone furniture,
3100–2500 BC and due to a
ranging from cupboards,
shortage of wood in Orkney,
dressers and beds to shelves,
the people of Skara Brae
stone seats, and limpet
Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping. A range of unique stone furniture has been excavated in Skara Brae, a Neolithic village located in Orkney. The site dates from 3100–2500 BC and due to a shortage of wood in Orkney, the people of Skara Brae were forced to build with stone, a readily available material that could be worked easily and turned into items for use within the household.
equipped
Each house shows
with an exten-
a high degree
sive assortment of
of sophistica-
stone furniture,
tion and
ranging from cupboards,
was
dressers and beds to shelves, stone seats, and limpet tanks. The stone dresser was regarded as the most important as it symbolically faces the entrance in each house and is therefore the first item seen when entering, perhaps displaying symbolic objects, including decorative artwork such as several Neolithic Carved Stone Balls also found at the site.
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