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It is not beyond the bounds of possibility,
that a technologically advanced people
could live more simply
than their technology insists…
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But outside the realms of science fiction writing
it is highly unlikely.
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The Ancients present us with just such a conundrum.
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Apart from the stones themselves,
the archaeological remains
speak of ‘low-level’ subsistence.
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The stones and their construction
are anything but low-level,
being at the very least
incredibly accurate chronometers
which purposefully track the heavenly bodies
and quite possibly a lot more besides.
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One way out of the conundrum
would be to posit two separate peoples
which we might want to call the ‘designers’
and the ‘builders’.
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But this immediately presents us
with a whole host of equally insurmountable problems.
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How and why did the two peoples
live in harmony together?
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Where did the ‘designers’ come from?
And where, eventually…
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