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>But it has been possible. The Mola team estimates it would have taken 20 to 25 men working five or six days in different groups to build the chamber and would
by treis 8y ago
>But it has been possible. The Mola team estimates it would have taken 20 to 25 men working five or six days in different groups to build the chamber and would have involved felling 13 oak trees.
>“It was a significant communal effort,” said Jackson. “You’ve got to see this burial chamber as a piece of theatre. It is sending out a very strong message to the people who come and look at it and the stories they take away from it. It says ‘we are very important people and we are burying one of our most important people’.”
That doesn't really seem like all that much effort. Especially for an era where there was significant downtime between harvest cycles.
- duxup 8y agoI feel like discoveries like this maybe are more of "we don't see a lot of sites that would take this much work" and less so shock at the amount of effort put forth but the wording gets spun around? I agree with you, it doesn't seem unlikely that a community or multiple communities would put that much work into something.
- sgt101 8y agoThat's a 21st century perspective; every hour that was available was an hour that could have been used to improve life, always, every day, winter was coming.