We are left with the images themselves, and with the framework of understanding we can construct from what we know about the broader archaeological context, about the character of the imagery, about the social world in which the site was embedded.

This framework is genuinely informative.

But it cannot replace the knowledge that only the builders themselves possessed.

The second significant remaining mystery is the specific social structures and decision-making processes that produced the site.

Who decided that a new enclosure would be built?

Who organized the labor?

Who had the authority to direct the quarrying, the carving, the erection?

We know that these decisions were made and these activities organized.