How much do we know about Stonehenge? Less than we think. And what has Stonehenge got to do with the Ice Age? More than we might think. This blog is mostly devoted to the problems of where the Stonehenge bluestones came from, and how they got from their source areas to the monument. Now and then I will muse on related Stonehenge topics which have an Ice Age dimension...
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009
Bluestone Enigma review
Just heard that there might be a review of THE BLUESTONE ENIGMA in Antiquity, one of the leading archaeology journals. That would be a nice surprise, since I had come to the view that "the establishment" would not contemplate a review of the book anywhere, for fear of frightening off the faithful who have been trained ever since they were toddlers to believe in the story about little hairy men and their mighty feats of valour -- in hauling 82 bluestones all the way from West Wales to Stonehenge. So maybe they HAVE (ie the senior archaeologists, not the little hairy men) accepted that there is more than one view of what might have happened, and that the "alternative" view at least deserves consideration..... I'll keep you posted.
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