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Re: Newgrange book
Nov 06, 2012, 14:55
tiompan wrote:
"Deep into the mind and soul of his ancestors " ? I' would be suspicious of anyone who said that about a contemporary never mind someone from 5,000 years ago .
I did read " Island of the Setting Sun. " . Not recommended , mostly fantasy and when they did get into the astronomy etc lots of mistakes . There is a another recent book on the same subject but the author makes no bones about it it being fiction


Not to mention -

...the mysterious people of the New Stone Age who created giant structures using primitive technology. What has become clear from these investigations is that Newgrange is a uniquely special place, and that its construction was carried out not by a grizzly mob of grunting barbarians...

Words bandied about without much attention to accuracy. There’s nothing ‘mysterious’ about them, and the technology they and other Neolithic peoples employed in the hauling of great rocks from A to B was hardly ‘primitive’ – in fact we’d be hard pushed to achieve the same with our ‘sophisticated’ machinery.

As for a grizzly mob of grunting barbarians (why use that sort of language in the first place) we’ve heard it all before – re: Atkinson at Silbury.

Jeeze...
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