That’s a nice article, cheers.
His idea of our obsession with “concepts of labour, efficiency and profitability” definitely rings true and has been debated on this forum in the past especially with regards to the stonehengineers group and their experiments.
“I think the idea that “it may have been the actual acts of construction that provided the main social focus” is definitely a valid one, his phrase “rather than being built to be used they were used in their building” sort of sums it up well, although I’m not sure if this applies to all rings. I have a picture in my mind of people standing back and admiring their handiwork and saying to each other “right, we’ve built it , so what the hell are we going to use it for?” a kind of prehistorical millennium dome dilemma.
It will be interesting to see how his ideas develop when other areas are brought into the study.