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I have enjoyed reading this book, which attempts to convince the reader that the diffusionist theory of agrigultural technology as spread from the near east is wrong and that the ancient britons invented a form of farming, metalwork and hence a civilisation themselves.
I would have enjoyed reading this work even more had the english grammar and spelling been up to secondary level and had the author been less selective in his choice of evidence in support of his theory.
Modern genetic analysis of haplotypes still extant among the european population indicates that the majority of the post-glacial (mesolithic) people of Britain originated from "refuges" located in northern Iberia, i.e.the Basque country. Subsequent migrations of people who probably brought advanced flint-working technology, cereals, copper & bronze metal-working, beakers, iron-working, roman, germanic, scandinavian, french, dutch and new-commonwealth civilisations are clearly present in the genelic spread of the British.
If the author really wants to convince his readers that the "indigenous" post-glacial mesolithic population merely absorbed these migratory colonists and adapted their technologies, then he has to explain how the close relationship between the appearance of new technology e.g middle rhine - type "beakers", gold-working and a different genetic haplotype came to be present in the genetic record and why each migratory group in turn became the ruling elite, conquered the existing population, slaughtering the men and enslaving the women.
No-one farms reindeer in the British Isles today, making a living trading antlers and selling meat, skins and worked flint. If they did, the author's hypothesis would carry greater weight.
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road