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Re: The bluestone debate
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nigelswift wrote:
Critical analysis is fine but calling it a myth rather suggest you've made up your mind.

Human transport is by no means a comfortable orthodoxy. Various bits of evidence in it's favour have arisen in the past few years, as I've mentioned. ........... Human transport is a better supported hypothesis now than it used to be.


Which bits of evidence, Nigel? Amesbury Archer? Boscombe Bowmen? Those famous ox teeth? Sorry -- there's nothing in any of those investigations that supports the human transport theory.

Links with Palaeozoic rocks and western Britain may be established, but any links with West Wales are entirely speculative. From where I stand, what we see is an old hypothesis with some guys desperate to attach bits of evidence to it. It's logical to assume that visitors to Stonehenge in the Bronze Age might have come from Wales and from many other parts of the UK and the near continent -- but none of that moves the human transport theory onwards.........


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16th November 2008ce
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