Megalithic shipping and trade routes

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[Boreades]

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[Mick Harper]

If you're going to have to import most everything anyway -- which clearly they would have to even on the orthodox model -- then why tie yourself down to one source? Although I quite like the idea of the local(ish) economy bending its back to the support of Megalithic savants. Wouldn't it be fair to say that the apparently sophisticated and expensive infrastructure of tarbets, megaliths and whatnot (he says vaguely) would seem to be out of scale for local needs even allowing for a bit of entrepôt?

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[Mick Harper]

[TisILeclerc]

[Boreades]

[Boreades]

To help break some people's deeply embedded habits of seeing London as the centre of the known universe, with all the quaint shires and shire folk being distant and unimportant, here's a different view of the British Isles, c. 8,000 years ago.

When people sailing north from Iberia (on the left) would have more easily have reached Ireland than England, and travelling north by sea was easier than trying to move east across land.

[Mick Harper]