My three 2024 published papers

Postulated ice flow and erratic transport routes in one or more of the 

pre-Devensian glacial episodes

These are the three papers published so far in 2024. All of them have been received very well by the specialist group of researchers whose opinions I respect.........

Refs:

1. John, B.S. 2024. The Stonehenge bluestones did not come from Waun Mawn in West Wales. The Holocene, 20 March 2024 (published online), 13 pp.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379121966_The_Stonehenge_bluestones_did_not_come_from_Waun_Mawn_in_West_Wales

2. John, B. S. 2024. A bluestone boulder at Stonehenge: implications for the glacial transport theory. E&G Quaternary Sci. Journal 73, 5 June 2024, pp 117–134,

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381205542_A_bluestone_boulder_at_Stonehenge_implications_for_the_glacial_transport_theory

3. John, B.S. 2024. An Igneous Erratic at Limeslade, Gower & the Glaciation of the Bristol Channel. Quaternary Newsletter 162, 28 June 2024, pp 4 - 14.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381775577_Quaternary_Newsletter_Article_AN_IGNEOUS_ERRATIC_AT_LIMESLADE_GOWER_AND_THE_GLACIATION_OF_THE_BRISTOL_CHANNEL

These three articles, published in quality peer-reviewed publications for an international readership, have had good media coverage and abundant hits, especially on Researchgate. The Waun Mawn article, which was published in March, has had more than 2,800 hits already, in addition to the 7,000 hits on the pre-publication version. The members of the "archaeology establishment" are undoubtedly reading my articles published over the last decade, even though those who are responsible for the promotion of the human transport myth refuse to cite anything written by me, since my ideas are far too disruptive. That's rather sad, and also rather pathetic, involving a betrayal of the ancient academic tradition that you must cite and deal with your opponents. So I am portrayed (behind the scenes) as a maverick and an incompetent old fool, drawing conclusions which are unworthy of consideration by those who like to think of themselves as "experts". It's a strange old world......

Alongside the thunderous silence of the Bluestone transport gang, we have the thunderous blogging of one Timothy Daw, who presumably thinks of himself as an expert because he shared the authorship of a "learned article" some months ago with Messrs Ixer, Bevins, Pearce and Scourse. Tim posts a stream of articles in which he seeks to rubbish my ideas and quesstion my competence, while demonstrating over and again that he knows nothing of glaciology or glacial geomorphology and has no particular wish to learn. Of course, he refuses to allow comments on his blog, so all of his preposterous claims about bluestones and earth surface processes, and about my hard evidence, go completely unchallenged. It's a strange old world..........

But there is no point in getting too upset about all this palaver, and I continue to be reassured by messages such as the following:

    
Quotes:

I have been sent a link to your paper. Thank you. It is a wonderful deconstruction of much of the hyperbole that surrounds SH.

........so good to see these arguments in print Brian!

Enjoyed the paper, but to be honest found it a bit ridiculous that it had to be written. There is clearly a problem in archaeology at the moment, it should not be possible to publish these nonsense papers.

Thank you so much for sending me your article. Such impressive scholarship and a cracking good read. Really questions the current narrative in a persuasive way. 

...........good media cover. extremely welcome!

.......very many thanks for the article. Congratulations once more -- great stuff.

..........thanks! it was great to see your previous article get a lot of attention in the media online, look forward to reading the new one

Well done, Brian. Good to get this published. Pity that a 100% provenance match was not yet possible.. Nevertheless, an important record. Enjoyed reading it.

Interesting article indeed and I think the gentle tone provides a convincing case for a discovery that bolsters your overall case....

Amazing what a lot of information can be derived from a piece of rock!

I believe you, for what that is worth! A wonderfully researched and presented paper. Congratulations!

Interesting read!

Thanks for this Brian. You are very restrained on the antics of the MPP myth factory.

Brilliant Brian.

Thanks Brian, great paper.

Good stuff - many thanks for the pdf. You are on roll!

I felt privileged to have an early sight of your latest 'offering'. I can see that you have put a lot of effort into producing it. Keep up the good work!

Excellent! I am a firm believer in the glacial theory of course. Seems obvious to me, and supported by evidence........

Your paper provides a compelling and thorough presentation.