Boreades
In: finity and beyond
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| Grant wrote: | Just reading Francis Pryor's Scenes from Prehistoric Life. It's about the major prehistoric sites in Britain and is quite interesting but, as always with Pryor, his thinking always runs on the same lines.
Every hand axe found in a bog was a sacrificial offering, carefully placed as an offering to the Gods. Every stone circle is placed in a ,liminal, place on a boundary between the place of the living and the dead. Every colourful hand-axe was a religious offering. |
Isn't everything "high status" and "ritual" as well?
Goodness knows what they will say when they finally discover that Long Barrows were neolithic warehouses. As used by "low status" trades peoples.
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