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Thanks tjj -- I meant my video-making skills were a bit limited. I hope the content is OK! I'm quite intrigued to hear rumours of the recent stone identifications coming out of the digs on the Cursus and West Amesbury. It appears that there are many stones -- especially rhyolites -- whose provenance is totally unknown. They appear to have nothing to do with Pembrokeshire or West Wales. This makes the "glacial erratic theory" look even more attractive, and hopefully this will be confirmed when several new papers are published.

I have also picked up on info that a couple of reviews that the book might have got in mainstream archaeological journals were stopped when the reviewers said they has "major archaeological misgivings" about the book. Bloody cheek! If reviewers have "major archaeological misgivings" about the book I want to know what they are, so that I can address them. I am fed up to the teeth with senior archaeologists who say "He is not one of us -- we know things he does not know, so we'll just ignore him......" and then fail to specify which pieces of my thesis they are unhappy with. Excuse me while I splutter obscenities into my coffee.......

Don't worry - you are doing just fine. You have formally proposed a hypothesis in a secure form - a book - and that theory will be debated in the mainstream (eventually). Archaeologists wil only consider material from their peers ie. other archaeolologists. One of those will publish something derived from your work and they will then consider that (eventually). They all - well, the men, certainly - want a kick in the arse, and that's what the glacial erratic theory does.

Did your two pro bono review copies bear fruit on Amazon?