spencer
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Edited Mar 14, 2019, 13:23
The pigs have it
Mar 14, 2019, 13:19
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Very interesting article in the Independent online today - sorry can't do link - on research published in the American journal Science Advances of isotopicanalysis of pigs teeth from Avebury, Durrington Walls, Marden and Dorchester. All now ceremonial sites where tribes gathered from as far away as Scotland..this land was already significantly interconnected 4500 years ago. The animals were all young and couldn't have been brought to the sites by droving..evidence therefore of the extent of our maritime capability and by inference that there were maritime settlements that could be classified as ports and vessels of more substance than the Dover boat?
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Monganaut
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Re: The pigs have it
Mar 14, 2019, 16:28
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Yeah, saw that. The article stated that the piggies were all yearlings, so if made to walk miles wouldn't have had much meat on them, hence they believed they were transported. Either by cart or as you say by river. It makes sense that those mega monuments would attract peeps from far and wide. Hell they're a spectacle today, what the hell were they thinking then.....minds blown I imagine....oh, here's the link.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/neolithic-britons-mass-feasts-stonehenge-avebury-wiltshire-dorset-cardiff-university-sheffield-a8821651.html
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Howburn Digger
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Re: The pigs have it
Mar 14, 2019, 23:27
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One would presume that if journeying from Orkney, the Hebrides and areas on the Scottish Coast no other mode of trannsport but sea-going (though perhaps coast hugging for much of the way) boats and double canoes would even be considered. A couple of days walk across Salisbury Plain at the end of such a voyage would be the kinda stretch of the legs you would need. Pull up on the beach above the Severn Tide, paddle your feet in the warm pools at Bath and head over to Durrington for a barbeque and a week at the Stonehenge Festival.
It has never occured to me that our ancient forebears travelled in any other way than boats to access biountiful islands and coastal spot for seasonal harvests of seafood, Salmon runs, seasonal low tidal exploitation of fish-traps, deer herd hunting, regional meetings, fruit, nuts etc etc. Much of the inland landscape was so densely forested, boggy or mountainous that it would make no sense whatsoever to try and "walk" any great distance to a ceremonial festival of interconnectedness down Salisbury way whilst droving pigs and cattle! As for travelling these great distances by carts... hmmm... I just never, ever saw that happening...
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