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mountainman
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Re: The bluestone debate
Nov 14, 2008, 18:29
Just caught up on this debate. Quite intriguing to see how personal and vicious some people get, simply because a sacred cow is held up for close examination. It's high time that this particular sacred cow (namely the Human Transport myth relating to the bluestones) was looked at carefully, because it has changed subtly from being a theory in 1921 to being "the truth" today. OK -- a lot of people WANT to believe it, for a variety of reasons, and feel threatened when somebody comes along and questions it, but can we have a bit more tolerance here?

There are two theories -- the glacial theory (which is the one HH Thomas would have accepted quite happily in 1921 if he had known that there are glacial deposits on the eastern side of the Bristol Channel) and the human transport theory. As many people have pointed out, there is not a single piece of evidence to support the latter, whereas there is quite a lot of evidence to support the former. So on the balance of probablilities, the glacial transport theory has to be the one to go for -- until some "killer fact" comes along which will sort out the debate once and for all.

The arguments are laid out in a new book. Info here:
http://www.bluestone-enigma.co.uk

By the way, nobody is talking here about the Last Glaciation. We are talking of a much older ice cover -- some info from new glacier modelling work here:
http://www.brianjohn.f2s.com/enigma7.html
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