HERITAGE RECORD · 514

Heart of Neolithic Orkney

奥克尼新石器时代遗址

The official record, selection criteria and sourced cultural context.

World Heritage record

The group of Neolithic monuments on Orkney consists of a large chambered tomb (Maes Howe), two ceremonial stone circles (the Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar) and a settlement (Skara Brae), together with a number of unexcavated burial, ceremonial and settlement sites. The group constitutes a major prehistoric cultural landscape which gives a graphic depiction of life in this remote archipelago in the far north of Scotland some 5,000 years ago.

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Wikidata reference

QIDQ1334966 ↗

Area15 ha

Administrative areaQ100166

WikipediaHeart of Neolithic Orkney ↗

Chinese Wikipedia新石器时代奥克尼的中心 ↗

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Selection criteria

This property was inscribed under the following World Heritage Convention criteria.

(i)A masterpiece of human creative genius.

(ii)An important interchange of human values in architecture, technology, arts, town planning or landscape design.

(iii)A unique or exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or civilisation.

(iv)An outstanding example of a building, ensemble or landscape illustrating a significant stage in human history.

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