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Re: New study challenges timeline
Dec 03, 2012, 19:06
tiompan wrote:
Littlestone wrote:
tiompan wrote:
I've seen this suggested before but other than look at the pics , which are a great resource , why would they bother ? I can't think of any examples where it has been apparent . Although Andrew Cochrane did mention some tma posters attitudes to Newgrange , a few years ago , but the content of the essay was really more po mo , Baudrillard , Benjamin and simulcra .


Think the idea that there was a strong porky-based culture at play in the Neolithic was suggested here before the discoveries at Durrington Walls confirmed it. That some (many?) stone circles were just corrals, and that Silbury, Avebury and Thornborough were originally (and designed to be) a brilliant white. And, most well-know of all, how Silbury plays out its position in the surrounding landscape.

Think we continue to throw ideas (not to mention lizards ;-) into the melting pot that then seem to be picked up by some archeos and investigated by them – more power to us :-)




The corral idea is an old one James Lynch suggests that Irish historians believed “The stone circles of Ireland, and beyond, are cattle crushes or corrals, for want of a better description. “ and I'm sure there are plenty of other vicar/antiquarians had the same belief ,but who of the contemporary pros has championed the idea ?
Burl mentions the whitness of henge at Thornborough before TMA began and probably that of Avebury in the Avebury book .
To suggest that there was a porky based culture would require using the evidence from pros to support that idea , so it's a bit circular .


The former chair of the Avebury Society Alastair Service made the point in print about Silbury being white almost twenty years before this website existed, Foster made the same point in relation to Avebury in the 1920s, the point was already old even then, made in relation to barrows on Salisbury Plain and near Dorchester in the 19th century.
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