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VBB wrote: The former chair of the Avebury Society Alastair Service made the point in print about Silbury being white almost twenty years before this website existed, Foster made the same point in relation to Avebury in the 1920s, the point was already old even then, made in relation to barrows on Salisbury Plain and near Dorchester in the 19th century. Fair doos... but the point, surely, is whether those observations were ever given much credence at the time (or for that matter for several decades afterwards) by the established archeo community. Remember, it’s within (some of) our lifetimes that Atkinson was calling the builders of Silbury ‘howling barbarians’. It’s probably fair to say that our present, more ‘receptive’ way of thinking, has created a far more open-minded approach to archaeological research - and that has to be the value of forums such as this - always pushing at the boundaries slightly. Reply | with quote |  3rd December 2012ce 20:38 In reply to: Re: New study challenges timeline (VBB) |
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