{"id":712,"date":"2011-06-27T18:46:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T17:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=712"},"modified":"2011-06-27T18:46:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T17:46:57","slug":"discussion-groups-in-the-neolithic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/06\/27\/discussion-groups-in-the-neolithic\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion Groups in the Neolithic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I noted in the last <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/06\/27\/lets-hear-it-for-edgy-co-existence\/\">post<\/a>, during my couple of days on the Isle of Wight last week, there was some discussion of ARUP's 10 Winning strategies for the ecological age. \u00a0These were written to stimulate a consideration of future human-human and human-earth relations in the present day, but one of our group suggested that they they are probably quite descriptive of how Neolithic societies actually functioned. \u00a0 Whilst being somewhat agnostic on this point (did they really go around saying: <em>Optimise not Maximise<\/em>), I found myself wondering whether, when Neolithic groups actually met up (as they surely did), whilst some were off having a c\u00e9ilidh and a pint of whatever it was at the time, some earnest types would sit around and consider the pressures on their way of living (too many henges cluttering the landscape, maybe), whether society needed improvement (better boats for all that rock, no doubt), and whether the curriculum needed revising (more timeless facts and less revisionist opinion, perhaps).<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I don't know enough about any of this for this fantasy to go much further, other than to say that Michael Flanders did write a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iankitching.me.uk\/humour\/hippo\/henge.html\">satire<\/a> about troubles in Neolithic times that did imply some conversation: \"A henge? \u00a0What's a henge?\" \u00a0Indeed; a timeless question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I noted in the last post, during my couple of days on the Isle of Wight last week, there was some discussion of ARUP's 10 Winning strategies for the ecological age. \u00a0These were written to stimulate a consideration of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}