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[–] Quill7513 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How... Would they build that shit if they didn't?

[–] solo 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think what the article is trying to say is that

Monuments such as Menga make us think that “perhaps we miscalculate the amount of intelligence that [Neolithic people] had,” (...)

as well as

“They are lessons not to think that we are the greatest civilization ever.”

[–] Quill7513 1 points 3 months ago

yeah i read it and I'm just... confused about whats going through the heads of people who need this explicitly stated