Scaley-backs vs Wooley backs

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fitzcoraldo Apr 27, 2006 10:41:33
Replying to tiompan

Hi G
That's a good point regarding the tides.
I suppose it throws up the contrast between farmers and fishermen.
Farmers work on a long solar time scale whereas fishermen work to a short lunar time scale. But I guess it's not that simple. Fishermen have a number of seasons throughout the year depending on which fish are accessible.
I wonder how this solar-lunar contast may have affected the belief systems/spiritual identities of prehistoric communities and could this have brought about conflicts between the two communities.
I would imagine that farming communities would have maintained fairly good relationships with their fisher-neighbours as both communities could have benefitted from a good trading relationship.

T tiompan
tiompan Apr 27, 2006 11:09:19
Replying to fitzcoraldo

"I suppose it throws up the contrast between farmers and fishermen.
I wonder how this solar-lunar contast may have affected the belief systems/spiritual identities of prehistoric communities."

Exactly ,one solar and the other lunar may be a bit romantic and simplistic but it's a possibility .Does lack of shell fish middens in the hills suggest a wee chippie and no tesco ?.The RSC's are often considered lunar but are usually well inland , I'm not too sure about that , there is quite a good case for a solar centered approach there. The two communities were guaranteed to have fought like hell on saturdays but intermarried too and got on fine when those further afield mussled in on the shell fish or deer.