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nigelswift Apr 20, 2004 10:14:56
Replying to TomBo

Because wood rots, and stone doesn't, isn't there a danger that speculation is based on apparent evidence that's misleading?

I mean, yes stone began to be used at some point in different places but if it was a follow-on from timber it could signal merely the spread of a new technical idea, a new and better way of doing things rather than a change to pastoralism or changes in mindsets. Better ways of doing things can be embraced by all cultures once the idea takes hold without it necessarily being evidence that the culture has changed.

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TomBo Apr 20, 2004 18:23:43
Replying to nigelswift

but this just pushes the question further back... why raise wooden structures? the fact remains that people have not always made monuments, and then at some point they began to. in my view, there had to be a reason for this happening. that reason is probably the same thing that makes us different from animals, IMHO.