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Megaliths

In Our Time

The Evolution of Magnetic Monuments

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archaeology because we're dealing with societies that don't have written records. So it's almost as if megalists form a kind of barometer for archaeological thinking, and every time the ideas change. It's far more likely that religion is quite fluid and varies from one group to another. Because it's traditional or oral religion rather than written religion, I think it's very likely that you don't have a kind of a presiding deity. Instead, it's likely that spirits, deities, ancestors are understood as being imminent in the landscape. When people were actually constructing these monuments,. it's as if they're engineering the cosmology at the same time.

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