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Goodreads asked Lynne Kelly:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Lynne Kelly It was sheer luck. I was reading about Australian Aboriginal and Native American animal stories and started to realise that they encode lots of really specific information about the animals species they were talking about.

The Navajo memorise a complete classification of over 700 insects, the identification, habitat, behaviour - and that's just insects! Add in the rest of the animals, plants, geology, genealogies, navigations, rules and regulations ... how do they memorise so much stuff?

That started me on the quest which led me to a new theory for the purpose of Stonehenge which just grew and grew. I was riddled with self-doubt for the 8 years of research, but my theory has now been examined by renowned archaeologists and an anthropologist for the PhD, and then scrutinised further for my academic book with Cambridge University Press, "Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies". It has been reviewed yet again for my forthcoming book for the general reader, "The Memory Code".

I can't wait to get into a discussion about these ideas with all and sundry!

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