Practice question · Multiple choice
Why do archaeologists increasingly answer "what was a megalith for?" by pointing at the labour rather than the finished structure?
Hints
- Ask what building it did to the builders, not what it did for them.
- Hundreds of people, for generations, on something no one would live to see finished.
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C. The labour is the point: building it makes a people
Why
The functional question is mostly a dead end. Coordination, cohesion, and permanence are what a monument produces: a stone is a sentence a society with no writing cannot delete.
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