Megaliths
In Our Time: History
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The Megalithic Idea
Is there a megalithic idea which starts in one place and spreads around the world? If you go back to the 1870s you have James Ferguson talking about the idea of aMegalithic race that explodes out across the globe. And then Gordon Child in the 1920s is talking about the Idea of Megalithic missionaries who are bringing amegalithic cult out of the Mediterranean to northwest Europe. That only goes away as an idea when we find out that the monuments in the Mediterranean that are supposed to be the progenitors of the Atlantic megaliths are actually later in date than the ones that we find in Britain and Britain. Join Matthew Side for the latest
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