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Hi Thorgrim
I see the muse is upon you. Thought provoking and well written.
In an attempt to understand the "Megalithic Age" better, my current reading consists of:-
Avebury (A Burl).
The Age of Syonehenge (C Burgess).
Fairweather Eden (M Pitts & M Roberts) - About the Boxgove Excavation where a 500,000yr old hominid bone was found.
Celtic Sacred Landscapes (N Pennick).
How to Read a Church (R Taylor).
Plus numerous books on myths and legends.
Using books like these I have been able to "project myself back and forward in time." Cultures and technologies do not spring out of nowhere, nor do they just suddenly collapse.
Unfortunately the times we live in demand instant success and so when a revolutionary archaeological find is made hosts of new theories spring up. Previous finds are fitted into these new theories. It is only after many years that people tease the variuos strands together.
Like you I believe that true understanding of a period can only come by studying what came before and what came after it.
Good stuff Thor.
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