Two standing stones mark the entry to a limestone quarry, Huerfano County, Colorado

Driving a little High Plains road and I see standing stones! Well, sort of. It's the Long Neolithic in the County of the Orphan. #longneolithic #huerfanocounty

I refuse to talk of portal tombs 'haunting the landscape'. They are part of the Long Neolithic and the Long Neolithic is still living in the now. These are not dead echoes, but ongoing transmissions we interact with. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday #LongNeolithic

#LongNeolithic obviously. Apologies to @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social obviously.

Another example of how @hookland.bsky.social channels the truth of our archaeological heritage, capturing the essence of the thought and practice many of us strive to achieve. All passed through the mouth of @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social

Utterly elegant and magical

Long live the #LongNeolithic

Those stones that stand are still lithic monarchs of their kingdoms. Territories may have shrunk to a single wood or a field, but they still hold power, still rule the land. For the stones' soft power is story, a storing of our sense of sanctity. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday #LongNeolithic

Obvs #LongNeolithic.

Lichen-homing, climate-recording, folklore-anchoring and just possibly, precession pointing – some stones of the Long Neolithic are akin to Swiss Army Knives. They are not mere broken tombs, they are living gifts from the past. – Dr. K. Brophy, 1982 #StandingStoneSunday #LongNeolithic

For while the past is always palimpsest, the Long Neolithic persists as a thing never fully effaced. Whichever monarchs and cults came later to mark the stones as cross or king's border, the original erectors hover in our imagination. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday #LongNeolithic

The Long Neolithic provides an afterlife for is portal-tombed dead. Transformed into mystery, we still wonder their names, their lives. In the lithic beyond, they still call to us to visit their resting places, pause in case we hear them whisper. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday #LongNeolithic

For the barrow is never truly empty. Its bones and treasures may have been taken, but it holds fast its mysteries, holds fast its ghosts. It is phantom-filled, a place crowded with stories. No, the barrow is never empty. Edward Copeland-Blight, 1903 #LongNeolithic

Oooo look, new answer for what are cursus's

Route ways for torch lit parades:
Neolithic is the first reich

Archaeology still tells us more about the now than the past

The #LongNeolithic shadow casts both backwards & forwards

At the end of the day - it's just a big ole pile of stones in a field

Phwoar, that's some quote

Where's it from so I can steal and use it

@hookland.bsky.social & @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social will love that one #LongNeolithic

The stones speak with lichen and moss accents. They speak of more than three millennium of weather and all the hands that have traced maps upon them. Most of all they talk of constancy and change, treating both as part of unfolding mystery. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStones #LongNeolithic