Monday, June 24, 2019

Ironing out the Press Headlines from the Archaeological Reality



What must be stated is that this isn’t the initial time this more prehistoric dating of these crannogs had been presented. In year 1996, the Professor of the Archaeology at the Edinburgh University, Dr. Ian Armit, published the seminal book, “Archaeology of the Skye and Western Isles wherein he wrote down “In places like this Outer Hebrides of the Scotland, timber had been unavailable from Neolithic age and onwards. As an outcome, the total stone crannogs sustaining Drystone architecture had been very common there.”

Moreover, in year 2011, the professor, Dr. Jean-Denis Lepage advertised one of the top user friendly architectural record books ever advertised, the British Fortification through the Reigns of Richard III: The Illustrated History. With this magical journey illustrating the prehistoric relationship with the stones, it’s written there; “Archaeological evidences at the Crannogs in western Isles showed evidences that they were applied during the different periods in between 4000 to 2000bc.

The latest report stated:

“The research had demonstrated the extensive occurrence of Neolithic crannogs at the Outer Hebrides, ultimately confirming different scholarly speculation regarding the probability of their existence.”

The pioneers such as Dr. Lepage and Dr. Armit, in year 1996 and year 2011 respectfully, having no doubts be thrilled of this new research and which has been scientifically verified - for the primary moment - that crannogs were really a widespread trait of the Neolithic, and being built as first as 4000 BC, and with the evidences of radiocarbon way back up to the timeline.

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