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<p>This paper in part responds to an article (Madgwick et
al 2021) which in turn presented itself as a response to an earlier paper of
ours (Barclay and Brophy 2020). But, like our earlier paper, this one has a
wider remit. We had explored the presentation of the supposedly
‘national’ ‘unifying’ role of monuments in a geographically restricted sector
of south-western England – what we called the ‘“British” late Neolithic
mythos’. Madgwick and his collaborators’ response fails to address the key points
raised in our paper and, in doing so, in our view, provides further evidence of
both methodological nationalism and conceptual conservatism in continuing to
present a prehistory written around and prioritising evidence gathered in this
restricted area. It does this apparently without any recognition that that
research is being carried on within a problematic theoretical framework. </p>
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