Thanks to Chris for allowing me to feature these two photos, taken at the Rhosyfelin dig in Sept 2013. It all looks terribly scientific and worthy, with detailed surveying and systematic plotting of features deemed to have some significance, and samples galore, potted and bagged, and all ready for laboratory analysis.
The trouble with all of this, vastly impressive as it seems, is that five years have now passed and not a single field report has ever been published by MPP and his team for the scrutiny of peers. Only one peer-reviewed paper has been published (in 2015) in a learned journal, viewed by me -- and others -- as one of the worst papers we have ever seen, since it rides roughshod over virtually every convention of academic publishing and simply assumes the correctness of the "bluestone quarrying hypothesis" right through from almost the first line of the text.
How do they get away with it? Why do they continue to be given grant aid?
2 comments:
Perhaps the MPP "Team" all should've gone to Spec Savers.
That's "Spec" as in SPECULATION.
Looks a bit like Colin Richards in the Post's photograph.
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