Sacred Stones response...

Without any explanation of what Mike Parker Pearson has said in the past in relation to Stonehenge, Bluestonehenge, and Woodhenge, it's difficult to know exactly how accurate the bloggers comments are. While there may be some similarities, I'm not convinced that what was mentioned by Ramilisonina really suggests any actual "evidence". I was also a little thrown off by his "element of magic" comment. I'm sure circles and ancestor stones (or something similar) hold value in many groups and times throughout the world so I'm not exactly sure what the specific comparisons between Neolithic Europe and Madagascar are supposed to be...just because stones represent death and wood represents life it seems a little far-fetched to suggest a direct connection there. I'm fairly sure that anyone working in any ancient burial/ritual site would be able to come up with correlates as well, possibly completely different ones than mentioned in the article/blog. That being said, culture may have started small and branched out over time, meaning that beliefs and rituals from varying groups and places have their basis in the same original ideas, thus, leading to correlates between completely different groups/places/times/etc. Perhaps this is what M.P.P. and Ramilisonina are suggesting and the blogger took their comments too literally? Or maybe they believe there are direct, specific linkages between Neolithic Europe and Madagascar that forced the blogger to call them out? Maybe I missed the point but I suppose I don't know the whole story as I'm sure it's much longer than a double-sided sheet of paper...if taking lots of anthropology and archaeology classes has taught me anything, it's that no matter what your stance is there is some way to correlate it and someone to break it down. Maybe if everyone spent more time on building time machines and less time writing enormously long winded opinion pieces about what may or may not have happened in the past, we could avoid these disagreements...