Stonehenge almost certainly wasn’t erected by a hunter-gatherer society. Its main monuments date to about 2500 BC, which in a British context is late Neolithic or early Bronze Age (i.e. post-agricultural), and are generally attributed to the Grooved ware culture.
Forager economics may have existed at the edge of agricultural civilization well after the transition, of course, but from associated artifacts, among other things, we can be pretty sure that the European megaliths were put up by sedentary agriculturalists.
The problem I have with reactionary thought, neo- or otherwise, is the selectivity bias and half-informed nature of so much of it. The above commenter, araneae, referencing the post-agricultural Stonehenge as an example of pre-agricultural war is an example of that.
They tend use evidence rather loosely and carelessly. But their arguments seem strong to anyone who isn’t widely read and capable of critical thinking. Sadly, that profile represents a large part of the American population that is intellectually vulnerable to persuasion.
Stonehenge almost certainly wasn’t erected by a hunter-gatherer society. Its main monuments date to about 2500 BC, which in a British context is late Neolithic or early Bronze Age (i.e. post-agricultural), and are generally attributed to the Grooved ware culture.
Forager economics may have existed at the edge of agricultural civilization well after the transition, of course, but from associated artifacts, among other things, we can be pretty sure that the European megaliths were put up by sedentary agriculturalists.
The problem I have with reactionary thought, neo- or otherwise, is the selectivity bias and half-informed nature of so much of it. The above commenter, araneae, referencing the post-agricultural Stonehenge as an example of pre-agricultural war is an example of that.
They tend use evidence rather loosely and carelessly. But their arguments seem strong to anyone who isn’t widely read and capable of critical thinking. Sadly, that profile represents a large part of the American population that is intellectually vulnerable to persuasion.