I didn't think it could get worse.
It got worse. 😫
"#Stonehenge was built to unify ancient Britons during a “legitimation crisis” caused by the migration of people from mainland Europe, researchers have suggested."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/stonehenge-failure-theory-origins-archaeology-b2678688.html
#Archaeology
It got worse. 😫
"#Stonehenge was built to unify ancient Britons during a “legitimation crisis” caused by the migration of people from mainland Europe, researchers have suggested."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/stonehenge-failure-theory-origins-archaeology-b2678688.html
#Archaeology
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I suspect it got absolutely eviscerated in peer review...
https://bsky.app/profile/news.rte.ie/post/3lfpppcewns2r
https://bsky.app/profile/jensnotroff.com/post/3lfxolopgcc27
Now apparently it's back- and the dodgy language got worse.
Yes.
(Tariffs on beakers next, obvs...)
(Remind me again of how long it took to build the thing?)
Why not an example of how much more technologically advanced the new guys were, with the wheel allowing longer distance trading etc?
The Beaker People could have said 'guys... look how much better we can make your henges', and incorperated distant stones for the PR.
Yes, definitely something put together in a hurry for unity 🤣🤣
“The Altar Stone’s incorporation into Stonehenge as an attempt at unity may have been a response to a legitimation crisis brought on by this influx of new people.”
This is lethal stuff.
- probly more like 'Stone-a-henge', bcos nobody had yet invented 'Ing-er-laaand...!'
(Also 'beaker' presumably a mistranslation of 'woker'; who knew...?)
I can imagine him reading this like one of his stand-up comedy shows
He'd roast it
Eddie Izzard would be a good runner up, especially being alive and a local
I don't think this is the year to let AI use a Ouija board
Although I’m always willing to listen to different interpretations, unfortunately these types of arguments are frequently being hijacked by Nationalists who use them as part of their twisted ideology
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/20/dutch-invaders-stonehenge-ancient-britons
sorry 🫣
Route ways for torch lit parades:
Neolithic is the first reich
Archaeology still tells us more about the now than the past
The #LongNeolithic shadow casts both backwards & forwards
At the end of the day - it's just a big ole pile of stones in a field
May I also add how lovely it is to see Seller & Yeatman's theory of displacement "by fire and the sword" making a welcome return to the discourse.
Oh dear god...
But I couldn't resist taking a pop at the Indy and DK, who once royally and willfully misinterpreted what I told him about the Shinewater site.
doesn't follow from
“insular Neolithic population appears to have been largely replaced".
This is faulty logic.
Even if we did have unification (highly arguable) no reason it to think it would have not included incomers
Reads again….Throws phone
Makes me think of Kenny Brophy's excellent paper on his Brexit hypothesis in archaeology...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329562823_The_Brexit_hypothesis_and_prehistory