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[Boreades]

Good idea.

I was hoping to post an image of Spiral as an agent provocateur. But all I can find with a search for "agent provocateur" are images of, err, inadequately dressed young ladies. Honest.

Talk of The Holy Book reminds me, we're down to only one copy of TME in stock. Walkers have walked off with the rest. Must go shopping.

[Mick Harper]

Spiro has just discovered a new site, written by "proper" archaeologists http://www.badarchaeology.com/ I cant see them liking ME................ In fact they are going to hate it. Really hate it.... maybe they should be sent a copy.

I have been slagged off for years on this site (in my The History of Britian Revealed incarnation). The head honcho, Keith Mathews, though a stern and unyielding critic of me personally, is actually quite an engaging chap with whom I used to have many merry engagements.

I can't remember now but I think a TME was sent to him.

[Boreades]

Is TME becoming a collectors item?

I just went to Amazon UK to restock our shelves for the start of the walking season. Only three available, so that's all I could buy from Hattie & Mick's "official" source. I thought that would have reduced the stock to zero, but when I refreshed the page it says two available. Huh? Did I only order one? Checked the order, it says three. Strange.

Some other UK sellers selling it at a higher price, some lower. I was tempted to buy from the lower ones, but that doesn't contributed anything to H&M (I think?)

Over in the US, its $51 + shipping, = c.£35
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/ ... 1427642323

[Mick Harper]

Thanks, Borry, that's another forty pence each to me and Hatty. Plus you made us the thirty-second best-selling archaeology book for several hours. Where did you find your American site? Let us know how you found it so we can get it closed down if necessary. The correct one is here
http://www.amazon.com/Megalithic-Empire ... hic+empire
where the book is available for tuppence ha'penny or whatever.

[spiral]

Spiral has just completed "A view from the west" "The neolithic of the Irish Sea zone" by Vicki Cummings.. It is a sort of very open minded semi-orthodox introduction to Neolithic chambered tombs. My selection of it was purely as my copy was reduced from £35.00 to £8.99.....Cummings' approach is to seek continuity within this sea zone (a sort of Western coastal sea empire?) whilst she criticises both national and local approaches to archaeology and landscape. There is a lot of interesting speculation (big picture stuff) about what might have happened in the mesolithic and neolithic. She then rounds this off with applied case studies.....

Easy to read.

Gently persuasive, you are left with the impression she is holding quite a bit back.

[Boreades]

A western coastal sea empire is very much the theme of this quietly charming video by Bob Quinn, who I must confess I'd not heard of before. Anyone else?

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xscgzc ... n_creation

The awarding winning series "Atlantean" began filming in 1981. This is episode one of the quartet by Bob Quinn.

A few key notes:
- Irish music not like European music. Music of Connemara is similar to music of Libya.
- W.B.Yeats (usually a stickler for accuracy) mentions North African mercenaries in Ireland and the Barbary Ape found in Ireland.
- Galway trading port prosperity with Spain (Cadiz), trading Wool for wine, In 16th century, one summer, 600 spanish ships counted.
- Language oddities: (Heinrich Vagner says) Irish , Welsh , Breton features not shared by other languages, have the Verb first in sentence, like ancient Egyptian, Berber, Hebrew and Arabic.
- A goodly rant about archaeo-assumptions and suppression of dissenting opinions about seabourne links.
- High frequency O blood group in : West Scotland, Ireland, Wales Iceland, Sardinia and Berber region of North Africa
- Cadr Idris == Idris the Giant in Morocco

My take on it is a timely reminder that I'm far too casual with the use of the word "Celtic", especially when we somehow think that both tall red-haired folk and short dark-haired folk are all Celtic.

[TisILeclerc]

This reminds me of a book I once read, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Coracle, or was it the Oracle?

The guide claimed that the gaelic language belonged to the west of Ireland and no further east. This video appears to confirm that theory.

The full video can be found on youtube and can of course be downloaded using one of the many downloaders. A useful addition to modern piracy of the interwaves if not the sea waves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h2ioOwVus4

For comparison to what they were singing in other areas the beeb runs a variety of programmes one of which is available for about twenty five days if they are to believed is to be found here.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05nv56f

The singing starts about five minutes in and begins with a psalm sung in a typically wild Lewis style. Not favoured by the Church of England I'm sure. Even the catholic church uses a more civilised form of hymn singing in the islands.

[spiral]

- Galway trading port prosperity with Spain (Cadiz), trading Wool for wine, In 16th century, one summer, 600 spanish ships counted.

That would be the Armada......they weren't trying to invade...

[Boreades]

Where did you find your American site? Let us know how you found it so we can get it closed down if necessary. The correct one is here
http://www.amazon.com/Megalithic-Empire ... hic+empire
where the book is available for tuppence ha'penny or whatever.

It's just among the search results, from this search:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss? ... hic+Empire

At the moment, third one down
http://www.amazon.com/Megalithic-Empire ... hic+Empire

Are these third party sellers fixing their own price?

[Boreades]

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