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| >Once you have this experience and information at your >disposal you have to make your own mind up. Yeah, totally, and always keep it open to change, of course. I'm really grateful for this message board as a place where theories and ideas can be thrown around amongst people who have had, collectively, far more experience than any of us can have individually. >The main thing is that the facts do not tell the whole >story and the real answer will never be catagorically >known. This is one of the things that makes this period and these monuments so interesting. If you want to know about, say, Tudor history then it's just a matter of looking it up. The knowledge is all already there, and so it doesn't really include the student in the way that neolithic history does. Fine point about a place with a burial not just being a tomb. We know for a fact that long barrows were revisited and the bodies dinsmembered and bits removed, and clearly any religious beleif has a focus on death that is a lot more than just marking it when it occurs. To return to the future archaeologists looking at our rituals thing, they'd see buildings with memorial plaques to the dead inside, surrounded by interred corpses and presume all churches were just tombs. Reply | with quote | Posted by Merrick 4th September 2004ce 12:33 In reply to: Re: Welsh cromlechs (FourWinds) |
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