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...cold weather isn’t the only obstacle to campaign success: the volunteers must cope with obscured house numbers, hidden street signs and the dreaded unpronounceable last name...
...answer is settlement: the time when, about 6,000 years ago, mankind turned from a nomadic to an agricultural way of life. That was the moment, Cope says, when man began to assert some kind of existential control: "When we started putting stones around the campfire, when the hearth became the center of life, when suddenly the heavens started moving around us instead of them changing as we moved across the landscape...
...Cope has cornered the market in travel guidebooks to megalithic monuments. The Megalithic European (Element; 496 pages) is his second book of big stones, a companion to The Modern Antiquarian, in which he chronicled the remnants of neolithic Britain. Published in 1998, it sold more than 30,000 copies?not bad for a 2.3 - kg slab of a book with a $50 price tag. Like its predecessor, The Megalithic European is an immensely practical - as long as it's not in your rucksack - gazetteer of more than 300 sites stretching from northern Denmark to Malta, from Crete to Portugal. Entries...
...Ireland, to the huge mortice - and - tenoned pedestals of the island of Menorca. The Scandinavians stood their stones in boat formation; the Portuguese shaped them like eggs. What they had in common is that tribal leaders put them there to prove they'd picked the right spot, says Cope. "They mythologized it for being flood - free, fertile and safe. That's a universal response." Archaeologists might well pick holes in his arguments; they lent an indulgent ear to his lecture on Odin at the British Museum in 2001 (not batting an eyelash at his warrior - god face paint...
...stones are starting to weigh him down. "I'm getting a bit sick of them," Cope says, explaining that he only started writing manuals to underpin his grand work in progress, Let Me Speak to the Driver?a less earthbound exploration of man's neurotic craving for myths - but got carried away. "I'm 47 - a good age for keeping your head down and working," says Cope. "But I've told my wife that when I'm 49, I'll probably go into a second period of psychic experimentation. I'm glad I've got the practical books...