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A rock humanity dragged for miles just to say we were here.
means A massive stone, either standing alone or combined with others, used in prehistoric or ancient construction and monuments.
from Built from Greek parts: 'megas' meaning great or huge (the same root giving us 'mega'), and 'lithos' meaning stone (also seen in 'lithograph' and 'Paleolithic'). The word itself is a relatively modern coinage, assembled by antiquarians and archaeologists in the 1800s to classify ancient stone structures like Stonehenge — so the term is younger than the rocks it describes by several thousand years.
- literal meaning
- Greek for big stone, zero creativity required
- stonehenge weight
- some stones hauled 150 miles, no wheels
- purpose debate
- tombs, calendars, or ancient flexing, still argued
- global habit
- built independently on nearly every continent