tiompan
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Stonehenge explains ancestors' intelligence .
Jan 12, 2017, 09:56
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Good post from Mike Pitts .
Particularly like 1-3 .
Sadly it still needs repeating
http://tinyurl.com/zp7b3y6
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tjj
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Re: Stonehenge explains ancestors' intelligence .
Jan 12, 2017, 13:29
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tiompan wrote:
His blog also has embedded in it at number 10 this rather significant Guardian link.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/12/stonehenge-a303-tunnel-chris-grayling-world-heritage-site
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tjj
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Re: Stonehenge stitch-up!
Jan 12, 2017, 14:01
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tjj wrote:
https://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2017/01/12/breaking-news-stonehenge-stitch-up/
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nigelswift
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Re: Stonehenge explains ancestors' intelligence .
Jan 12, 2017, 16:59
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Wonderfully amusing, 1-9.
However, as you say June, it also has No 10 ....
tjj wrote:
....and his take on that is all wrong IMVHO. They never claimed to be tunnel experts but you don't need to be one of those to know a SHORT tunnel involves ripping up the landscape each side of it!
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tjj
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Re: Stonehenge explains ancestors' intelligence .
Jan 13, 2017, 11:31
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Hope you don't mind me putting this here - which I agree with completely. Don't know much about Mike Pitts but am afraid he comes across as somewhat .... no I won't say it.
https://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2017/01/13/mr-pitts-fails-to-explain-the-fundamental-point/
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nigelswift
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Re: Stonehenge explains ancestors' intelligence .
Jan 13, 2017, 12:03
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tjj wrote: no I won't say it.
Oh go on!
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tjj
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Edited Jan 13, 2017, 17:54
Re: Stonehenge explains ancestors' intelligence .
Jan 13, 2017, 17:34
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nigelswift wrote: tjj wrote: no I won't say it.
Oh go on!
I didn't want to make a knee-jerk reaction. I know Mike Pitts is an archaeologist who has in the past led work at Stonehenge. So well qualified to comment - as, in his opinion, the rest of us clearly are not. Perhaps the polite word I was looking for is 'dismissive' - and why bring Brexit into his argument for crying out loud.
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nigelswift
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Re: Stonehenge explains ancestors' intelligence .
Jan 13, 2017, 18:08
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I suppose he's trying to imply that opposing the tunnel is opposing experts, Gove-like. He has already said the Stonehenge Alliance are like Trump, so he's at least consistent in his insults.
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tjj
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Re: Stonehenge experts
Jan 14, 2017, 11:09
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As he is clearly a qualified expert Mike Pitts does indeed deserve to be listened to and his opinion shown due respect but so indeed do people like David Jacques whose work at Blick Mead has been ground breaking.
Another quote from a Guardian article on the subject:
"Finding consensus will not be easy. Among those who have voiced early, vociferous objections is David Jacques, a senior research fellow at the University of Buckingham, who is working on a Mesolithic site called Blick Mead within the Stonehenge landscape.
One of the intriguing recent finds there was evidence of the earliest known long-distance walk in British history – a 250-mile trip from York to Wiltshire made 7,000 years ago by a hunter gatherer and his dog, unearthed thanks to the discovery of the animal’s tooth.
Jacques believes proposed building associated with the road changes and tunnel near Blick Mead could prevent similar finds in the future. “This is arrogant and outrageous. It cuts down the chances of people in the future finding out more about Stonehenge.”
From what I have been reading elsewhere there seem to be many others qualified as experts who feel the same way as David Jacques. My own point of view is not really relevant but I do find it baffling and sad that a solution cannot be found to meet satisfy all the expertise tied up with Stonehenge and its surrounds.
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tiompan
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Re: Stonehenge experts
Jan 14, 2017, 11:38
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I found the "forager and his dog " story about as convincing as the "purple haze " i.e. colourful stones at Blick Mead .
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