tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post526776202329170114..comments2024-03-28T22:13:17.139+00:00Comments on Stonehenge and the Ice Age: Tracing the origins of a wild goose chaseBRIAN JOHNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-76675709221523550442016-09-18T17:03:21.489+01:002016-09-18T17:03:21.489+01:00Apologies, folks: I seem to have got my 'Tim D...Apologies, folks: I seem to have got my 'Tim Darvills' and my 'Rob Ixers' muddled, in my comment at 09.12 today, above.Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-36519559008125617622016-09-18T16:29:41.758+01:002016-09-18T16:29:41.758+01:00"I'm a long way from anywhere
like heaven..."I'm a long way from anywhere<br />like heaven in this town, your town"<br /><br />JAMES TAYLOR, circa 1970 (a song he sang to his audiences wherever he happened to be that particular night!)<br /><br />Home, particularly our place of birth, usually equates to folks' idea of their (nostalgic) heaven. Probably why James Taylor refers to Home in so many of his songs....<br /><br />TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-90023905495272814812016-09-18T11:53:15.942+01:002016-09-18T11:53:15.942+01:00Ah, Myris -- I see that your professional pride is...Ah, Myris -- I see that your professional pride is dented. Well, I may be an antedeluvian old codger, and I may have no idea who Steinman was or is, but in all fields I try as honestly as I can to assess the evidence in front of me and to work out whether the evidence presented justifies the conclusions drawn. Your article in this mining magazine is certainly not one of your best -- you do not even get the locality site right. <br /><br />I repeat -- all the other completely ignorant senior geomorphologists (most of whom now hold chairs in assorted universities) who have looked at Rhosyfelin and who have read the literature make the same points: there is no quarry, and the evidence presented does not justify the suggestion that the provenancing of bluestone fragments has been done to within a few square metres.<br /><br />I don't like being accused of intellectual dishonesty, and I do not adopt a dual position at all -- in every field we should welcome close scrutiny of our work and defend it. On this blog, I have at least been prepared to answer questions and deal with criticisms from many different directions, without worrying too much whether the questions come from botanists, economists or even archaeologists. It wouldn't help me if I was to say "I can't be bothered to explain why I hold this particular view. Life is too short. I'm the expert and you just have to believe what I tell you." <br /><br />My parents tell me I was born in Carmarthen. Which part of heaven were you born in? BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-68114616440252849332016-09-18T10:59:11.210+01:002016-09-18T10:59:11.210+01:00Brian
You are not a geologist nor have you ever be...Brian<br />You are not a geologist nor have you ever been one and it is far to late for you to try. You have picked up some knowledge in hand specimen identification of a limited number of lithologies.<br /><br />You are as much a geologist as MPP is a glacial geomorphologist.<br /><br />Stick to what you know. You exhort others to do so. It is intellectually dishonest and self-defeating to adopt such a dual position.<br /><br />M<br /><br /><br />It is dishonest of you to claim to belong to the heaven-born. A year's sub-sid geology 60 years ago in the pre-plate tectonic days makes you ante-deluvian. I bet you remember Steinmann and his trinity.<br /><br />M<br />Myris of Alexandrianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-11483449453537271892016-09-18T09:14:18.938+01:002016-09-18T09:14:18.938+01:00Proper scientists seem to be involved in S.I.S., f...Proper scientists seem to be involved in S.I.S., folks, and their site covers a wide specrum of scientific issues, not just archaeology.Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-63142406947794599162016-09-18T09:12:33.877+01:002016-09-18T09:12:33.877+01:00TD writes, predictably enough:-
"This sugges...TD writes, predictably enough:-<br /><br />"This suggests an almost impossible provenance of ten metres square."<br /><br />Perhaps, in this sentence if IF NOT in those surrounding it, TD chose his words extremely carefully. Rather like what a politician like former Chancellor, recently - deposed George Osborne recently said about his Tory Party's new Leader, Theresa May, following the BREXIT result:-<br /><br />"She was the best choice of all the [restricted number of] candidates who stepped forward"<br /><br />"...an almost imossible provenance of ten metre square"TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-43930874106974652362016-09-17T18:45:56.172+01:002016-09-17T18:45:56.172+01:00Yes, that's my old friend Dyfed in the video c...Yes, that's my old friend Dyfed in the video clip. He is a far better geologist than I am, and I have great confidence in his judgments relating to rocks and geological processes. <br /><br />I don't recall coming across that group before -- but yes, it's good to see a splash of cynicism from somebody who does not accept that MPP and MP are uniquely in possession of the truth.......BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-57810709527040955912016-09-17T18:08:17.827+01:002016-09-17T18:08:17.827+01:00The Society I just mentioned, S.I.S., says it'...The Society I just mentioned, S.I.S., says it's the oldest and most up - to - date society for catastrophist infomation and research.<br /><br />It's a non - profit = making UK Charity. Website looks very good.TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-70643668628862467372016-09-17T17:49:24.516+01:002016-09-17T17:49:24.516+01:00As a former librarian/ information worker, I am us...As a former librarian/ information worker, I am used to trying to find information related to the subjects on this Blog. I have just found an article written last year within an organisation I'd not heard of before, the Society for Iterdisciplinary Studies.<br /><br />The article shows a refreshing scepticism about all the claims from the MPP Team for a quarry at Rhosyfelin.<br /><br />Go to:-<br /><br />www.sis-group.org.uk/news/mike-parker-pearson.htm<br /><br />Within this article is mention, and connection to, an article written by a Geologist within Wales who says their is no evidence for there being any quarry at Rhosyfelin. I think, having only briefly looked so far, he is a co - author with Brian of the Papers last winter.<br /><br />As for tracing the origins of those wild geese? Well, the horse's mouth is clearly Rob Ixer, Esq.TonyHnoreply@blogger.com