Years ago, Wunderlich expressed, uh, wonder that the bathtub-shaped art found by Evans at Knossos were heralded (by him, and all the well-washed Victorian upper classes) as part of the first indoor plumbing system in Europe, while more level-headed excavators called them what they are -- bathtub-shaped sarcophagi.
It's a little odd that some of these sites are supposed observatories, while others are considered passage graves and other kinds of tombs (in nearly every case, already robbed of whatever they'd held, long ago). Y'know, 'cause that's what all of them (or perhaps just the overwhelming majority) are. ;')
No books come to mind. I recall reading recently a story I'd heard a while back -- that a carving found on Stonehenge appeared to show a Mycenaean knife, which led the discoverer and many others to believe that there was some sort of trade link between Britain and Mycenaean Greece (this is something that wouldn't come as that much of a surprise to me, but anyway...). Eventually the position got stretched out to say that Stonehenge was itself a monument of some Mycenaean ruler.
Then along came scientific dating, and it was found that Stonehenge antedates Mycenaean Greece by at least 1000 years (in my view, more like 1500). Megalithic structures all over Britain and Europe (and even on Malta; not too sure about those mysterious towers that cover the landscape of Corsica) are generally centuries older than the Great Pyramid.
This is not to say that a bunch of early Britons got bored after building 'em, and then headed for Giza. ;')
Neolithic France
Archaeology | May/June 2005 | Jennifer Pinkowski
Posted on 04/21/2005 10:03:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Malta’s Magnificent Hypogeum
The Cultured Traveler | May 2001 | Patrick Totty
Posted on 09/21/2004 11:07:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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New Dating For Wat's Dyke
History Today | August 1999 | Keith Nurse
Posted on 07/30/2004 7:13:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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