Civilization One

This is a very well researched book, Knight and Butler have made some interesting discoveries. There interpretations and conjectures, however, are pretty weak. I suppose they wanted to stay roughly within scientific consensus with this book; however, its not that any “scientist” is going to pay attention to it anyway, so it seems like a lost opportunity to create a stronger thesis than “the megalithic yard is real.” I understand that their research is ongoing, its just a shame because the material in this book would work much better as a scholarly article, but who would publish it? Alternative research is always going to suffer in this manner I think, until the community coalesces in such a way so that alternative scholarly journals can exist and thrive. My advice is to read Knight and Butler's latest works as this one is more of a stepping stone than a monograph.