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.