"To explore the debate between cultural relativism, ecological, evolutionary and Marxist perspectives through the ethnographic record, for investigating the cultural and social reproduction of changing forms of stratification."

= We are sad and think that the 'Old Days' (as we like to call) them were peachy! Unlike the harsh days, full of modern conveniences and health care, we live in today.

"The course uses the enigmas of the NW European Neolithic megalith-building cultures to focus contemporary debates in the anthropology of power."

= We believe in the Mother Goddess ... and she was better than your modern God!

"Particular attention will be paid to the procedure of devising tests for various theories"

= We can't prove any of it and we're hoping someone else will while on the course

How's that? :-)

it's about the change from hunter-gathering (moon) culture to agarian (Sun), due to the extinction of prey after the ice-age

people don't give up their ideas easily, so the old ideas have to be eased into the new

hence, whilst Stonehenge needed to be solar aligned, it also needed to have a lunar element to keep an air of tradition and authority

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http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~ait/news02.html
Chris Knight and Lionel Sims. lecturers in
anthropology at the University of East London, dressed up to play their part in the King's Drummers troupe.
http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~ait/02sjp4.jpg

I know who he is now - seen him about loads ...

RG