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PeterH
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Re: Is this a boat?
Nov 22, 2005, 14:44
Yes and that same axe carved on one of the uprights was only recently held to prove that Stonehenge was built by Cretans. The argument went along the familiar lines that woad painted, skin-clad, hairy Ancient Brits couldn't possibly be clever enough to build Stonehenge.

Phoenicians certainly traded for Cornish tin and Strabo tells us that they sailed beyond the Mediterranean founding Gades (Cadiz) en route. It was Melkarth (the Tyrian Hercules) who navigated beyond the known world to the Shades and discovered the Cassiterides - the Islands of Tin. Traders soon followed him and the Cornish tin trade was up and running.

That still doesn't mean that Scandinavian rock artists suddenly had an incredible burst of inspired activity when they saw Phoenicians galleys sail into their far northern waters. Not impossible, but any shred of evidence?
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