As Peter has pointed out (please see below) "... "these islands" are north and west of Austria, not south and east ..." I stand corrected and now properly orientated (think the disorientation might be due to an excess of oysters yesterday :-)

However...

>Littlestone put to much of a mix into one period.<

Not really, if you read my post carefully you will see that, although I quote from different periods (Greek myths to Celtic literature) I'm drawing on the same tradition whether it's literate or pre-literate - I think that's as relevant as being able to quote verbatim from the literary source of Beowulf knowing that the Beowulf story itself existed orally for hundreds of years before it was written down. So too with the possible boar/pig cults that I'm interested in here.

>Yes domestication of farming animals has been going on a long time, proberly reindeer, dogs, chicken, cats, sheep, goats, cows, pigs and what have you, I know that Neolithics had a thing about animals<

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by the, "... domestication of farming animals has been going on a long time ..." Would you care to put a date on 'long time'? Nor do I quite understand what you mean by, "... and what have you ..." What have we other than the animals you list? And, "... that Neolithics had a thing about animals ..." What do you mean by a 'thing' about animals?

>I know that Neolithics knew their stone material like no other<.

Well, I guess the 'Neolithics' didn't have much choice but to know their stone like no other. However, to say that, "... these people where very clever indeed." is one of the most delightful understatements I've ever come across. Jo-anne, what did you expect the people of the Neolithic to be? We're talking about the people who built Silbury, Avebury, Thornborough, Callanish, Carnac, Stonehenge, etc, etc etc. What do you expect these people to be other than very clever - grunting ape-men?