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FourWinds wrote:
That is a very interesting thought. Were the beakers exchanged? i.e. have the raw materials used been traced to far away places? I've not heard of any such analysis.
With reference to the book by Jack G Scott, the Regional Archaeologies of South West Scotland, it does have some information on the above, i'll take a closer look, might be something in there worth taking a scan of.

I ordered that last night, so I'll be able to take a gander at the weekend (I hope). Most of my time is spent reading excavation reports and studying 19th Century books, which doesn't help me keep 'up to date'* with current thinking. Spending so much time on excavation reports gives one a very narrow slice of things. It's great when talking about specific monuments, which is where my main interests lie, but awful when it comes to considering things on a wider scope, which is why I avoid doing so as often as I can. This does bug me somewhat, though, because I occasionally comment on the narrow, regionally biased views of others in some matters.

* often anything after 1950 :-)