I direct all of you to the book
Uriel's Machine: Uncovering the Secrets of Stonehenge, Noah's Flood, and the Dawn of Civilization, by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas. The authors make a very convincing argument that civilization started, not in Mesopotamia, as current wisdom holds, but in the British Isles and adjacent western Atlantic areas; and that it spread outward from there. They show that the megalithic monuments of the British Isles were actually sophisticated teaching instruments, and that there were learning centers in various parts of Britain and Ireland that attracted seekers and students from all over the "known" (i.e., Western) world back in the third millenium BC. The boy mentioned in the post may have been one of those. Great book!
http://www.amazon.com/Uriels-Machine-Uncovering-Stonehenge-Civilization/dp/193141274X