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Re: Hardwired
Mar 09, 2006, 11:34
The monuments are signs that the most basic needs were being fulfilled , and that could also apply to periods long before their construction .That is not to say that there wouldn't have been times of shortage and famine .
Refrew , Burl and others have all done estimates on man hours required to build the major Wessex monuments and possibly the calorie requirements too. By the Bronze age the "holy"parasites were probably replaced by a new class of ruler parasites. In Egypt they built the monuments and still had enough surplus for wars too.
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