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Don't knock the ancestors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mike Pitts
Mike Pitts*
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125 High St, Marlborough SN8 1LU, UK. (mike@avebury.net)
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Abstract

“Too many ancestors?” said James Whitley. Mike Pitts responds.

Keywords

ancestorsStonehengelandscape

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Debate
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Antiquity , Volume 77 , Issue 295 , March 2003, pp. 172 - 178
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2003

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