But what they do next has no earlier examples. Our Skara Brae family were not the first to play with knucklebones – we have examples of knucklebone games throughout history. We have flicked stuff around to amuse ourselves for millennia. Modern games like throwing jacks, tiddlywinks and Korean gonggi are all based on the same idea. Soon, rules are drawn up – points scored for landing your bone closest to a target, flicking the most into a cup, or knocking over your opponent's tower. Someone else gathers a few together to stack in a tower. One of the family finds a knucklebone – knobbly, bumpy and thumbnail-sized – and flicks it across the room.
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The satisfied diners take a moment to enjoy themselves. These people live a comfortable lifestyle – and they have time to have fun. It is about 3000BC in Skara Brae, a small neolithic settlement on the west coast of Orkney's Mainland, Scotland. As the fire dwindles in the hearth, a family picks through the remains of their feast, turning over the bones for any remaining flesh.
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