Professor Myres has helped his students and fellow-workers to see the bearing of one subject upon another, and to suggest social factors of archaeological sequences and links between archaeological data and distributions of human types. His is not a mind that is compartmented, it ranges vividly and rapidly over wide fields, and suggestive thoughts spring forth in quick succession, often to be accepted, always to stimulate further work. It therefore seems appropriate to offer here, as a tribute to him, a review of some aspects of the problems of the distribution of rough stone monuments, a subject which, sometimes half unconsciously, he has on occasion illuminated with flashes of intuition and acute criticisms that have helped to lift thought on the subject out of certain ruts into which it had been inclined to sink.