WHO WERE THE BUILDERS? 



Hagiar Kim temple should have taken the trouble 

 to haul to the spot and use vast blocks over 20 

 feet in length where far smaller ones would have 

 been more convenient, unless they had some deep- 

 seated prejudice in favour of great stones. 



Such are the main difficulties involved by the 

 influence theory. On the other hand, objections 

 have been urged against the idea that the monu- 

 ments were all built by one and the same race. 

 Thus Dr. Montelius in his excellent Orient unci 

 Enropa says, " In Europe at this time dwelt 

 Aryans, but the Syrians and Sudanese cannot be 

 Aryans," the inference being, of course, that the 

 European dolmens were built by a different race 

 from that which built those of Syria and the Sudan. 

 Unfortunately, however, the major premise is 

 not completely true, for though it is true that 

 Aryans did live in Europe at this time, there were 

 also people in Europe who were not Aryans, and 

 it is precisely among them that megalithic buildings 

 occur. 



The French archaeologist Dechelette also con- 

 demns the idea of a single race. " Anthropo- 

 logical observations," he says, " have long since 

 ruined this adventurous hypothesis." He does 

 not tell us what these observations are, but we 

 presume that he refers to the occurrence of varying 

 skull types among the people buried in the mega- 

 lithic tombs. Nothing is more natural than that 

 some variation should occur. We are dealing 



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