[SunkenCiv]

L. García Sanjuán, J. A. Cámara Serrano, Megalithic Sites and Landscapes of Andalusia: The Large Stones of Prehistory (Consejería de Cultura, 2009)

Location and interior of the Menga dolmen

[Tax-chick]

Overall, the researchers concluded, each step of the construction required the work of highly skilled engineers.

Next, they'll be telling us that building the pyramids "required the work of highly skilled engineers." It's a new idea, some kind of brilliant insight, the building enormous things out of rock requires skill?

Maybe the point is that the word "engineers" is supposed to convey something new.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Bedrock University was a very good engineering school

[Max in Utah]

I'm wondering if the original reason for building dolmens was for protection against a threat from the sky.

From Wikipedia:
The Taurid stream has a cycle of activity that peaks roughly every 2,500 to 3,000 years,[9] when the core of the stream passes nearer to Earth and produces more intense showers. In fact, because of the separate "branches" (night-time in one part of the year and daytime in another; and Northern/Southern in each case) there are two (possibly overlapping) peaks separated by a few centuries, every 3000 years. The next peak is expected around 3000 AD.

Most of them were constructed about 6,000 years ago, in Britain, France, Germany, Bulgaria, the Levant, Turkey, Russia, India, China, Japan and especially Korea.

Archaeologists say dolmens were built as tombs, but I suggest that any burials came later.

[Organic Panic]

Much can be accomplished with an expendable supply of slaves.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

“Ancient Apocalypse” by Graham Handcock on Netflix proposes that mankind was far more advanced in the past than modern historians suggests.

He also asks if there were advanced civilizations what would remain except megalithic structures?

His arguments are pretty convincing.

[redfreedom]

160 ton rock. That’s 320,000 pounds. Dragged over a wooden trackway? Imagine the friction of stone weighing that much without wheels on wood. What wood on what surface could support that much weight without being crushed?

Assuming they had some uncrushable wood, how did they pull it along? With slaves? People?

Utter BS!

[Organic Panic]

Any first year engineering student in statics class knows how to move heave object with little effort.

Slaves.