tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post4252340521619698024..comments2024-03-28T14:00:12.372+00:00Comments on Stonehenge and the Ice Age: Colin Richards -- can we please have some evidence?BRIAN JOHNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-70240304212630014652014-06-20T03:03:33.029+01:002014-06-20T03:03:33.029+01:00TonyH,
How are the stones at Machrie Moor more ”c...TonyH,<br /><br />How are the stones at Machrie Moor more <i>”clearly discernible AS HUMANLY CREATED ARRANGEMENTS”</i>?<br /><br />KostasConstantinos Ragazasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-22397119939787560182014-06-18T15:23:14.407+01:002014-06-18T15:23:14.407+01:00What I meant to communicate, in my last comment, w...What I meant to communicate, in my last comment, was that CR's alleged stone settings arranged by humans in the distant past, be they circles, rows, pairs or whatever, perhaps were less clearly discernible AS HUMANLY CREATED ARRANGEMENTS, than those discovered at Machrie Moor on the west side of Arran. TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-41717276369277839342014-06-17T18:47:17.489+01:002014-06-17T18:47:17.489+01:00According to the things I have read, the Callanish...According to the things I have read, the Callanish stones were perfectly visible even when 5 ft of peat covered their lower sections. In fact, the peat might have helped to stabilise them and stop them from falling over....BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-81366378883382646422014-06-17T18:38:59.590+01:002014-06-17T18:38:59.590+01:00At Machrie Moor, Isle of Arran, broadly west of Gl...At Machrie Moor, Isle of Arran, broadly west of Glasgow,famously many stone circles and stone settings have been retrieved from the overlying peaty deposits, facing the Mull of Kintyre. But those were more clearly discernible, perhaps, than what seems to be under discussion here at Callanish. I have been to Machrie, but not to Lewis or Orkney.TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-39391714379051993542014-06-17T15:19:23.550+01:002014-06-17T15:19:23.550+01:00Re critical scrutiny, it's rather sad, methink...Re critical scrutiny, it's rather sad, methinks, that there is so little of it about....... you don't have to be a trained geomorphologist to point out that much that is written by certain well-known archaeologists is based upon fantasies rather than evidence. Maybe intelligent people nowadays don't have the time to scrutinise, in this frenetic modern world, thereby allowing charlatans to get away with the most extraordinary nonsense? (Not that I'm calling anybody a charlatan here .... but I'm sure you get the point.....) Other factors are short attention spans and a compliant and complacent media which just trots out what is fed to it, thereby increasing the tendency to develop spectacular narratives designed not for the peer review of the research community, but for public consumption as "pop science". Things were, no doubt, better in the good old days!<br />BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-79855691106393829712014-06-16T21:12:18.846+01:002014-06-16T21:12:18.846+01:00Short answer, Chris. No.Short answer, Chris. No.BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-70174971319897637532014-06-16T21:10:49.530+01:002014-06-16T21:10:49.530+01:00I hope Colin engages but I doubt it - maybe if you...I hope Colin engages but I doubt it - maybe if you had stopped half way through the post but then maybe not ....<br /><br />Thank for taking an rational look at this in-situ. I do think the archaeologists might move further and faster in your company than without.<br /><br />He seems to think the knoll is a critical feature for the design of the monument. Was this your opinion too?chris johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16210890033354730381noreply@blogger.com