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| But why are you so anxious to prove that he was a Brit? It is always dangerous to look at any aspect of British prehistory in isolation. If you read something like Cunliffe's "Facing the Ocean" which considers the people of the Atlantic seaboard as having a common culture, then the idea of people moving around by sea and by river is no longer strange. Just compare any of the many cup and ring designs on our northern rocks with those in Galicia, for example. Or, coming back to our Swiss archer, those in Carschenna Switzerland. (No I'm not suggesting he carved them as doodles while designing Stonehenge) What are they? Such widespread distribution does suggest a continental religion. The point is that there were seagoing boats (Dover boat) and the megalithic culture can be traced through Germany into Croatia etc and also all the way down the Atlantic coast and into the Mediterranean and on to Mallorca, Menorca, Corsica, Sardinia, Tunisia, Sicily and most impressively of all - Malta and Gozo. Earlier archaeologists maintained that everything came to Britain from the east by waves of migrations. Then that theory was rubbished and we were told of parrallel but unconnected developement and then the current one of diffusionism. Reputations are made and lost as theories come and go and sometimes even the most respected archaeologists are selective about evidence if they wish to protect their own theory or attack that of a rival. Maybe the prehistoric Swiss did make more than cuckoo clocks and chocolates, but that doesn't mean that the archer was Nestles' King of Stonehenge as Spivey seemed to state. Forget national boundaries - they didn't exist. Reply | with quote |  26th May 2005ce 09:04 In reply to: Re: Amesbury Archer - How Art Made the World BB... (Littlestone) |
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