Megaliths
In Our Time: History
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The Importance of Megaliths
These are societies that clearly don't have the state. They don't probably have fully instituted elites, there's probably a certain amount of jockeying for position within these societies. So on the one hand, it's a way of increasing your profile within society to be the person who's responsible for setting up or inspiring. You build the monument. Absolutely. Or you organize the people to build the monument and you have the feasting and you have ritual activities that you are on the side with. Well, we certainly do get the remains of feasts in the forms of particularly in Scandinavia,. Huge quantities of smashed pottery outside the tombs in the four quarts of other tom
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