stating the bleeding obvious

[burntcopper]

 watching one of those Stonehenge specials, hoping for a nugget of new info. (you watch enough of these, the programs are 3-5% interesting new angle/discovery, 40% dramatic reconstruction/bad graphics, 55-57% yawn) I did get it, but only right near the beginning, about the outer circle of bluestones that pre-date the sarsens that’re basically

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[silly_swordsman]

Yup. People do gather for big parties. And when they're there, they meet other people, and move in with them. That's how hamlets don't get inbred until they're all teeth and toes. And, incidentally, how ideas, technologies and goods spread.

It always amazes me to hear that until modern times, nobody travelled unless it was to go to war. Except a few nobles/priests, which they'll grudgingly allow to explain the fact that ideas, goods, and genes did evidently spread.

[burntcopper]

never mind the evidence of pretty much every empire or people migration, the original travel guide to Britain done by that Greek bloke, the fact that Britain's been trading since year *dot*, the existence of Brittany, oh, and... Reading. 90% of its continuing existence is due to the fact that it's the main crossroads and stopping point in southern england for everything from pilgrimage (mostly a group event) to trade.

[xenaclone]

'Until modern times nobody travelled' = WTF?!!?

The Polynesians didn't spread across the Pacific by magic!

Both sexes being priests = they do remember Ancient Egypt had priests of both genders going back to at least 4,000 BC and arguably way before that]?