TisILeclerc wrote:Hasn't the meaning of Tarbert been discussed elsewhere?
Yes, it's so well discussed that even people outside of TME have noticed. Neil Oliver was on the telly (again), a couple of years ago(?), presenting a re-enactment, with locals dragging a boat across the narrows.
That reminds me, Neil Oliver was on telly (again) last night, presenting Age of Ancestors
Age of Ancestors Neil Oliver examines what impact the arrival of farming had on ancient social structures. He dives off the Isle of Wight where archaeologists have found an 8,000-year-old hunter settlement and learns what happened when hunter-gatherers met farmers for the first time.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ysr2lPerhaps the most interesting parts were:
1) the 8,000 y/o settlement off the Isle of Wight with "the oldest boat-building yard in the world"
2) a trip to Carnac
3) the Orkney Voles! Now with DNA profiling that links them to Brittany (proposed transport was in sacks of grain from Brittany)
3) the 5,500 y/o old stone walls and farms found at Céide Fields, near the coast in South West Ireland (close to TME points of interest) - "the earliest known farms ever found in Western Europe".
Well, that's what he said.
Céide Fieldshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9ide_FieldsPreviously: Orkney's Stone Age Temple
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ms282