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The question Randall keeps returning to is deceptively simple. Why? What is the motive for quarrying and assembling 20 ton stones into monumental structures? In a world where virtually all of humanity was either farming or nomadically hunting and gathering, megalithic construction is not a natural cultural priority. Survival...

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