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tiompan Jan 31, 2006 23:03:44
Replying to nigelswift

"The earliest markings date from nomadic times AND tend to be on prominent outcrops"
The only way we have of dating RA at the moment is by association and the earliest in the UK is found inside passage graves and funerary monuments . Although the prominent outcrops may be older we just have no way of knowing that.

" (very few burials are found round rock art panels)." Very few panels have been excavated , but when they have they do not have burials .Although see above . One certain association RA has is with burials and death .

H Hob
Hob Jan 31, 2006 23:53:09
Replying to tiompan

>Although the prominent outcrops may be older we just have no way of knowing that.

But dare we infer it by ethnographic comparison with say, Australian ancient RA?

No. 'Cos then we'd get told off. 'Cos ethnographic comparisons are verboten, as they don't prove anything.

However, it ain't gonna stop me wondering how much closer to being able to devise a provable theory we'd be if such comparisons were used as a kind of halfway-house between random conjecture and proof.