tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post6940045312239034952..comments2024-03-28T14:00:12.372+00:00Comments on Stonehenge and the Ice Age: The artificial significance of Waun MawnBRIAN JOHNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-8768772096386702662018-08-13T22:56:54.717+01:002018-08-13T22:56:54.717+01:00The only way it got through any peer review proces...The only way it got through any peer review process, I contend, would have been getting Lord Lucan (b 1934 - disappeared 1974) to do the Peer - reviewing, eh, what?TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-58650151007883502502018-08-13T08:16:28.485+01:002018-08-13T08:16:28.485+01:00Fully agree with all of that. There is no link wi...Fully agree with all of that. There is no link with West Wales that can be demonstrated through their data -- the paper is disingenuous at best, with a strong bias built into it. Goodness knows how it got through the editorial / peer review process......BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-22196187634041304172018-08-12T22:52:16.636+01:002018-08-12T22:52:16.636+01:00When I read the original article ...
https://www.n...When I read the original article ...<br />https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28969-8<br />.. at first it sounded possible. <br /><br />Then I noticed their map of the Strontium levels.<br /><br />Hang on, I thought you said "West Wales"? But that's not what the map shows. Higher Strontium levels are spread all the way across the west of Britain, from Cornwall to Cape Wrath and beyond.<br /><br />Then they say:<br />"Previous strontium and oxygen isotopic research on human enamel concluded that the Beaker period (ca. 2400–1800 BC) ‘Boscombe Bowmen’ found near Stonehenge may have originated in west Wales, or perhaps from even further afield, in Brittany."<br /><br />"May", "perhaps"... Sharp-eyed readers will already have noticed the sleight of hand. <br /><br />Then they say:<br />"Strontium isotope analysis has also been used on cattle from Durrington Walls, a large henge monument near to and contemporary with the later phases at Stonehenge (ca. 2500 BC), with some individual animals showing more radiogenic signals typical of the older bedrock of western or northern Britain."<br /><br />Or northern?... like the cattle that were regularly driven from Northern Wales and Scotland all the way to Wiltshire and even London?<br /><br />Then they say:<br />Those with the highest values (>0.7110) point to a region with considerably older and more radiogenic lithologies, which would include parts of southwest England (Devon) and Wales (parsimony making locations further afield – including parts of Scotland, Ireland and continental Europe – less probable). <br /><br />Which kind of confirmed my first instinct from looking at the map. The more detail they reveal, the less likely it is that it's got anything at all to do with West Wales. It could be anywhere from Britanny to Devon to Scotland.Boreadeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08019137459183096472noreply@blogger.com