WHO WERE THE BUILDERS? 



end of the neolithic period and cover the copper 

 age, the later forms continuing occasionally into 

 that of bronze. Here again it is curious that 

 megalithic building, if merely an independent 

 phase in many countries, should arise in so many 

 at about the same time, and with no apparent 

 reason. Had it been the use of worked stones that 

 arose, and had this followed the appearance of 

 copper tools, the advocates of this theory would 

 have had a stronger case, but there seems to be 

 no reason why huge unworked stones should 

 simultaneously begin to be employed for tombs 

 in many different countries unless this use spread 

 from a single source. 



For these reasons it is impossible to consider 

 megalithic building as a mere phase through 

 which many nations passed, and it must therefore 

 have been a system originating with one race, 

 and spreading far and wide, owing either to trade 

 influence or migration. But can we determine 

 which ? 



Great movements of races by sea were not by 

 any means unusual in primitive days, in fact, the 

 sea has always been less of an obstacle to early 

 man than the land with its deserts, mountains, 

 and unfordable rivers. There is nothing inherently 

 impossible or even improbable in the suggestion 

 that a great immigration brought the megalithic 

 monuments from Sweden to India or vice versa. 

 History is full of instances of such migrations. 



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