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thesweetcheat
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Re: Sense of Place/Wildness
May 07, 2012, 19:38
What you said. It is very easy to fall into the trap of assuming than just because one monument was built somewhere for a particular reason, that all similar monuments must have been built for the same reason. It was very fashionable a couple of decades ago for archaeo-anthropologists to visit remote tribes to see what they did, then to apply the same thought processes to people living here in the Neolithic or whatever. But while the behaviour might be the same, it doesn't follow that it must be.

For your number 6, one I could offer is not just showing that they were determined and tough to their neighbours, but also to the gods. "We can and do have control of this place, look, here's our famous chieftain's/greatest warrior's remains to prove it."

Another might be copying. "We travelled to the communal gathering to the south this year, and they had this big ring of upright stones! Amazing. I'd like us to have something like that." The reasons why the first circle was erected may not be the same as the motivation behind the "copy".

BUT. Whatever the motivation behind a particular monument at a particular time, its positioning still appears likely to have been significant. And that implies an awareness and inspiration created by the landforms around. Even if the significance differed from monument to monument.
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