| Title: |
The megalith builders |
| Number of Pages: |
208 |
| Biblio Note |
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| Publication Type: |
Monograph
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| Abstract: |
Seeks a general explanation to account for the arrival in Atlantic Europe in Neo times of three main phenomena: passage graves, collective burial and a relatively complex system of practical astronomy and geometry. The non-diffusionist or Lamarckian view, that these features of Neo society arose independently in different areas, is considered in some detail but rejected in favour of a theory which would bring a priestly caste and its megalithic tomb-temples from the Mediterranean, and ultimately from proto-urban Mesopotamia as early as 5000 BC. This essentially Darwinian view of a 'religious revolution' takes into account the genetic studies of C D Darlington, as well as recent archaeological work on the henges of S England and at Skara Brae and the astronomical geometrical studies of Thom. |
| Author: |
Euan W MacKie
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| Year of Publication: |
1977
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| Locations: |
| Location - Auto Detected: |
Skara Brae |
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| Note: |
Date Of Issue From:
1977
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| Source: |
BIAB
(British Archaeological Abstracts (BAA))
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| Created Date: |
05 Dec 2008 |
