What do you get if you put a bunch of sophisticated apes on a rock? That's the question isn't it?!

For me it's all about this idea of apes discovering 50,000-70,000 years ago that their brain, that developed for a little bit of DIY and a lot of gossip, suddenly turns out to do all sorts of off-the-wall crazy stuff too. No instruction manual comes with the package either so it's been one hell of a ride!

For a geek it's fun to fiddle with hardware and software and see what mayhem or magic comes out of it, I feel the same way about the way we've been meddling with our own minds and attempting to fiddle with the minds of others, then as much as now.

What interests me about the stones is:

A. Most are plain bizarre, incomprehensible, inexplicable, basically the whole 'what the f*$%???!!!' factor. Many of them also are aesthetically magnificent, I love the way a place can completely change in front of your eyes with the passing of time.

B. They were built at a time when people started to settle down and learn to live with lots of unrelated strangers without bludgeoning each other to death for eating the last of the toast. That must have been quite an 'interesting' time, what a tale the stones would tell!