Rupert Soskin wrote:
No argument there. The problem is that there wouldn't be anything to see in the landscape if they represented wooden structures etc. The horseshoe motif is fairly common and there are horseshoe shaped structures in Ireland and the Shetlands, soooooo maybe.
I suppose it's a bit like a future archaeologist trying to figure out whether a Brice Marden painting and the London Underground map are examples of the same thing.
The shape of Neolithic-BA monuments , henges , ring cairns , stone circles , banjo enclosures, arrangement of cairns is echoed in RA ,whether there is a connection ??
Settlement is a major problem for the period with the few exceptions , Skara Brae etc we have little to go on . Most RA researchers believe that markings to be on the extremities of settled areas , I disagree and believe that they may be associated more closely with settlement . Going back to the map idea ,carving in stone is a very permanent and not too efficent way of pointing out where people live and if one hut burns down through accident or ritual there will be this big mistake on the map for future generations to scoff at and no way to erase it .
