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To: SunkenCiv
Probably should approach this with some caution, because there's a heavy bias against the hillforts actually having been forts. The kumbaya idea that somehow our peaceful ancestors lived in peace in peaceful surroundings of their own making is trying to strangle serious research in Britain, just as it is here.

If time permits, could you expand a bit on this? I only dip a toe in the subject from time to time, usually while in incidental pursuit of some tangential issue. I am aware that the peaceable kingdom fantasists have infiltrated relevant disciplines, but I also thought that the homo homini lupus/nature red in tooth and claw realists have always hung in the fight, and that the balance was perhaps swinging back their way due to the last generation's archaeological finds evidencing conflict.

36 posted on 03/22/2020 11:14:36 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: sphinx
"... nature red in tooth and claw..."

I'm sorry but you have just outed yourself as irredeemably deplorable with this referral to a DWEM quote (Alfred, Lord Tennyson). Your name is now on the list of the next 'D' Administration's to be done list! On a good note, at least you avoided quoting Kipling, that would have really marked you in RED!

Who trusted God was love indeed
And love Creation's final law
Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shriek'd against his creed

39 posted on 03/22/2020 11:36:19 AM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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