Tiompan wrote:
E.P.,
You have been provided with concise details proving that your definition(s) and understanding of the term Henge is wrong .
Your misunderstanding is based on the errors of others from fifty years ago .
Unusual post hole patterns do not a henge make .
You have had multiple examples of contemporary definitions of the term,
they have not changed much since Kendrick in the 1930's and at no time have ever been anything like what you have suggested .
Wittry was mistaken in his use of the term,
and in his understanding of the putative alignments at the original Woodhenge,
as well as the actual nature of the monument ,
never mind the rubbish about "alignments "at the US site .
There is no Yuchi henge, as with much of what you come up with , it's a fantasy , you made it up .
As well as being unable to respond meaningfully to the highlighting of your errors you have also failed to provide the most basic details about the Yuchi monuments , despite being asked .
That was 50 years ago, tiompan.
As at least theoretically archaeology is an evolving science,
perhaps you may want to consider gracefully accepting change in the terms used in it,
and aging gracefully,
as an alternative to becoming an old curmudgeon.
As for myself,
I keep forgetting that other people are not aware of information that I am aware of.
Yuchi henge lore was covered in my book in 2006,
which is always available to read for free via inter-library loan,
if you do not care to spend money on a personal copy, either used or new.
It is fully foot noted,
(at least it is a fully footnoted as I could do before my stroke interfered;
the lack of fulll footnotes pointing to the lesser known contact era Mayan literature annoys me,
but I was unable to get back to the University of Virginia library at the time)
and thus it will provide you or anyone else a base for future research.
Work has been done since then on trying to identify their locations, but much of it has not been too good, in my opinion.
If you want to tackle the problem of going through the contact era records of the Yuchi henges and their use and locations,
feel free to do so.
Myself and my colleague Fletcher Wilson are currently working on "Adena" Monoliths.
If as Fletcher currently strongly suspects, they also had an astronomical function,
then we will likely start to refer to them as "henges".
It is 2017, after all, and not the 1930's.
Though probably we can both do the Charleston or Jitter bug,
there are younger generations coming along...
