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Anthropology

William Seger

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6. Yeah, I don't think that's quite the right word -- maybe "unappreciated"

Reply to Iggo (Reply #5)

Fri Jan 3, 2025, 04:39 AM

Jan 3

I've always thought of monumental building as inherently political, regardless of the motive, because it would take a robust political structure just to organize and manage that much labor. I guess what the authors are suggesting is that this was perhaps the first version of a United Kingdom.

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