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BuckyE

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Re: Sense of Place

Jun 01, 2012, 05:32

No, sorry, the Indian gentleman was wrong. By the time the megaliths were being erected, civilization had been firmly and ineluctably entrenched for, how long? Gobekli Tepe 12,000 years back. Cave and mobile art 20,000 years old. Bone flutes 40,000 years old. Shell paint palettes in Blombos Cave 100,000 years ago. Civilization, Ho!

The western European megaliths are a fascinating but minor way point on a journey begun when the first protohumans banged the rocks together a million years ago. A journey we're still on.

Apparently the megaliths have a power to fascinate, to draw us out into what wasn't then, but now has reverted to wilderness, albeit one that bears no ecological relationship whatsoever to the "wilderness" the megalith builders experienced. So more power to the sites that give us a sense of place.

Moss was right. "...that is what draws people to seek prehistory out." Cool.

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