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It's a tricky subject to appraise. I haven't read this book. I probably wont buy a copy. But I would shake the hands of the authors for their enthusiasm. Unlike our universities I don't suppose they had much money to play with to pull it all together. And, Archaeology despite the spate of fading Devas on camera have produced little of their own reasoning to break the tedium of their own log-jam expression - Ritualistic - which at least the authors of this book have pointed out.
No-one's doubting the presence of genius in our sub-species earliest periods, especially the Megalithic. The problem is, as you imply in your reference to Professor Thom, it takes one to recognise one in the works they have produced.
If you were looking for genius today in a University, would you first look in at the Archaeology department, the History of Art deportments, or the Maths departments ?
Having spent six years in conversation with Sir David Spiegelhalter on a related Megalithic subject he put my name in his book on Probability - The Art of Uncertainty . But, would an Archeologist be able to understand the maths ? I don't think so.
I've yet to meet an archaeologist that can substantiate their use of the adjective 'geometric' with the diagram that would prove their supposed understanding of geometry... haha... and there are I can say with absolute certainly plenty of 'Artistic' examples from prehistory which are formed by the mind of genius that does.
It would therefore appear our Germanic University system is still more interested in taking money from the Briton than in increasing the knowledge about them.
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