tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post3913380449921850596..comments2024-01-30T06:35:10.103+00:00Comments on www.Sarsen.org: Strontium isotope analysis on cremated human remains from Stonehenge support links with west WalesTim Dawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667360714222841797noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post-9875238245851242072018-08-04T22:38:01.607+01:002018-08-04T22:38:01.607+01:00Good question Frank. I did consider it (briefly) b...Good question Frank. I did consider it (briefly) but there's a snag. Discussion forums exist to bandy around a range of ideas (plural, note). Right now, there's only one idea I'm interested in bandying around, but I already know to my cost that many folk find it a complete turn-off. <br /><br />But I recently came by a copy of Chris Scarre's "The Megalithic Monuments of Britain and Ireland", and find it packed with information that can be used to back up my speedy fuel-sparing 'pre-cremation/excarnation' theory, one that I now consider relates not only to Stonehenge but probably to pretty well every collection of stone or timber circles that appeared in Neolithic Britain (and much else besides - dolmens, many henges, the cursus etc.). There's one site in particular (Tomnaverie, near Aberdeen) on Page 60 which I consider a virtual clincher: I've added a short rider to my current posting today, showing Scarre's diagram of its two phases, first as a 'cremation pyre', later as a 'recumbent plus standing stone circle' minus pyre with more than a passing resemblance to Stonehenge (thinking of those early-phase onsite cremated remains, charcoal, Altar Stone - probably recumbent- distinctive geology of that recumbent stone etc etc).<br /><br />https://sussingstonehenge.wordpress.com/2018/08/02/todays-bbc-article-stonehenge-first-residents-from-west-wales/<br /><br />I hope to do a full posting on Chris Scarre's splendid if somewhat demanding book, but am only up to Chapter 2 (Scotland) so far. Next chapter is England and Wales. I'll have my work cut out for me, given the degree of penetrating detail on offer. <br /><br />I do believe that generations of archaeologists have missed the big picture, says he immodestly - or cannot bring themselves to contemplate a role for the dreaded e-word where our megalithic inheritance is concerned. Archaeoastronomy offers an easy, dare I say fanciful distraction from hard reality - namely a Neolithic preoccupation with quick efficient means of disposing of their dead, albeit tempered with a spiritual angle (soul release via "sky burial") ...sciencebodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12051016731274875332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post-8054493225650953032018-08-04T20:44:30.417+01:002018-08-04T20:44:30.417+01:00Colin, why not start your own STONEHENGE DISCUSSIO...Colin, why not start your own STONEHENGE DISCUSSION FORUM?Frank Millarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09856001998697668114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post-13163602843463011712018-08-03T15:42:37.372+01:002018-08-03T15:42:37.372+01:00I guess it's the difference between an entry i...I guess it's the difference between an entry in Yellow Pages, and setting out a stall at a street market. One needs to be more arresting, more eye-catching than the other ...sciencebodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12051016731274875332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post-32726634419768658072018-08-03T09:47:48.840+01:002018-08-03T09:47:48.840+01:00This web log is just my personal "record of o...This web log is just my personal "record of observations, readings, etc.," originally "record of a ship's progress,"" I'm sorry I'm not very interested in running a discussion club though I'm very happy for people to comment and interact within the comments if they want to.Tim Dawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10667360714222841797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post-74174893647911435342018-08-03T07:47:29.485+01:002018-08-03T07:47:29.485+01:00You've supplied a link to this important paper...You've supplied a link to this important paper, Tim, which has everything you have now duplicated. <br /><br />So, forgive my asking, why be content to provide a duplicate for something that is already online, free of charge?<br /><br />Why not do a summary of what you consider the main findings, the valid points, maybe also the ones you consider less valid? In short, put something of yourself into your postings, and indeed provide a useful public service, namely supply a sorely-needed STONEHENGE DISCUSSION FORUM? <br /><br />Sorry to be so candid and upfront. But there are things that need to be said, given the baffling absence of a DISCUSSION FORUM on Stonehenge specifically (as distinct from a certain mega-site, mega-expounding on megalithic monuments generally adopting a confusing and unsatisfactory scattergun approach - naming no names). <br /><br />Blogs, previously weblogs, are something else. While generally inviting comments, they do not usually function as welcoming discussion forums as well, serving merely as a medium through which one individual expresses his or her own likes and dislikes...<br /><br />So, what's your own take Tim on the allegedly Welsh-supplied bluestones based on strontium isotope ratios in cremated bone? Are you, or are you not, interested in anyone else's take?<br /><br /><b>Colin Berry</b> (retired biomedical scientist), owner himself of 3 blogsites.sciencebodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12051016731274875332noreply@blogger.com