Well, this is fun. The Stonehenge Lynch Mob has assembled all its forces and has marched out in the light of the midsummer moon, determined to string me up from the nearest trilithon.........
Their latest paper, a long and rambling (and in places repetitive) attack published in the Journal of Artchaeological Sciences, has no less than 11 authors, including MPP, Mike Pitts, geologists Bevins and Ixer, geomorphologist Jim Scourse, and archaeologist David Field. Our old friend Tim Daw is in there as well.
We have been waiting for this paper for some time, since it was prematurely cited by MPP et al towards the end of last year. It was clearly rejected by the Journal of Quaternary Science in January 2025, and later accepted (with revisions) by the Journal of Archaeological Science. Make of that what you will.........
https://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/2025/02/myths-fantasies-and-now-phantom-articles.html
There is a wonderful irony in the fact that the defenders of the establishment narrative have here written a long and detailed paper designed to destroy the "glacial transport hypothesis" and the credibility of my 2024 paper, having for the greater part of a decade refused to cite any of my publications or acknowledge that their bluestone narrative is disputed by anybody. Indeed, I have complained on many occasions of their academic malpractice in this regard. Suddenly, I find myself cited, not just once or twice, but in paragraph after paragraph of this new paper, with multiple quotations added in italics! So I am very flattered.......
Who would have thought that a little boulder found in a cardboard box could have attracted so much attention? Newall would have been delighted.
Don't you just love the title of the article? ".... correcting the record." The authors clearly think that they have replaced something dodgy with something authoritative and utterly reliable. Hmmm. Their arrogance knows no bounds. Maybe I should now write something called "The Stonehenge Bluestones: the truth" ?? What they have actually done, in this new paper, is to present a string of assertions and speculations as facts, as I shall demonstrate when I publish my detailed scrutiny. Their over-interpretation of questionable evidence is par for the course; they do it all the time.
Watch this space..........
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Richard E. Bevins, Nick J.G. Pearce, Rob A. Ixer, James Scourse, Tim Daw, Mike Parker Pearson, Mike Pitts, David Field, Duncan Pirrie, Ian Saunders, Matthew Power, The enigmatic ‘Newall boulder’ excavated at Stonehenge in 1924: New data and correcting the record,
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Having just returned from a very pleasant friendly bookish get - together in Bratton ( close to the Salisbury Plain escarpment where of course glaciation may well have trundled) I come home and find this unkind collaboration on me Kindle. I have counted ELEVEN contributors. What happened to the 12th Disciple I wonder! Was he overcome with an outbreak of decency and commonsense? It's highly likely that Messrs Ixer and Daw were prominent in promoting this piffle. Poor old Tim has been lured over to the dark side of the 🌙 moon yet AGAIN.
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