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cerrig
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|  Posted 10-10-2012 at 18:30
Having now finished the book by Mountainman, it has to be said that he has made a very convincing case for glacial involvement. He has admitted that it isn't a knockout case, but it does put a lot of reality into the debate that was, for most people anyway, missing.
There has to be some doubt about natural forces taking the stones to Wiltshire, simply because the hard evidence is incomplete , and a fair bit of theory has to be believed as well.
This is, of course, also true for the human transport theory too, but crucially, the question of human involvement is obviously not in doubt, it's the amount that's controversial.
The problem with both theories is that neither of them can join Preseli to Stonehenge without a large dose of circumstantial evidence.
Some professional analysis of Mountainmans evidence would be very welcome now.
The jury is still out, but it's split 
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| Posted 10-10-2012 at 19:06
That's in in a nutshell , there is no direct evidence for the transport of the Bluestones by human agency just as there is no direct evidence that humans lifted the lintels it's simply not there , although in the latter case there is no doubt that it was done by human agency .
Similarly there is no direct evidence that the bluestones were moved to , at best , within 15 K from Stonehenge or even entrained from any of the potential Preseli sites . Just because a glacier is capable of doing so doesn't mean that it did , same thing applies to the human agency theory . Lots of energy spent discussing the impasse but not much light , however apart from the debate we do know a bit more than we did due to the provenancing .
George
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On 2012-10-10 18:30, cerrig wrote:
Having now finished the book by Mountainman, it has to be said that he has made a very convincing case for glacial involvement. He has admitted that it isn't a knockout case, but it does put a lot of reality into the debate that was, for most people anyway, missing.
There has to be some doubt about natural forces taking the stones to Wiltshire, simply because the hard evidence is incomplete , and a fair bit of theory has to be believed as well.
This is, of course, also true for the human transport theory too, but crucially, the question of human involvement is obviously not in doubt, it's the amount that's controversial.
The problem with both theories is that neither of them can join Preseli to Stonehenge without a large dose of circumstantial evidence.
Some professional analysis of Mountainmans evidence would be very welcome now.
The jury is still out, but it's split
Cerrig
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