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🎉🎉!! 🏕️:(

Thank you so much for such a thorough (and interesting!) reply! It makes me think that despite all the effort and emphasis in finding common humanity with people of the past to better understand them, there's always more dimensions to explore. Do you have any recs for further reading on this topic??

Woah! It had definitely never occurred to me to think of these mega-projects as sites of political intrigue, or just how many conflicting interests could be at play for different groups and 'elites' and how much could be riding their (non-)completion!

First question is can I just pop them down here in the comments? And if so, in what ways might Neolithic monument building have been about control? What signs point to it?? 👀

I can't believe we got a new Sumerian myth before GTA 6...