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Originally Posted by afterburn 549

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AFAIK they have never found even one a tool at the site of them.

This alone is a conundrum as most sites have something left.............

Are you aware of this?

2002
Pyramid Builders' Village Found in Egypt
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/08/0805_020805_giza.html

The area, often called the "workers' village," is the site of a vast community that thrived some 4,500 years ago on the Giza Plateau. It may have housed as many as 20,000 people........................

Originally excavated during the 1999 to 2002 field seasons, the galleries appear to be part of a vast complex that also housed activities such as copper-working and cooking. ..................

The presence of a barracks could help explain the abundance of pottery, ash, and refuse found in the area, especially the tremendous amounts of animal bone. "When we excavate we find enough animal meat bone to feed several thousands of people," Lehner reported. "This would explain why."

The bones in the area suggest that workers enjoyed quite a lot of prime beef. Previous excavations have discovered that they also ate bread and fish, and drank beer.

Analysis of human remains has suggested that workers apparently had access to medical treatment. Evidence has been found of healed broken bones, amputated limbs, and even brain surgeries.

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https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/08/0805_020805_giza_2.html

Because the labor pool was a rotating force, contributed by local authorities from all over Egypt, the Pyramids project may have had a tremendous socializing effect.

This is why they now say they were not slaves, it was an honor or civic duty to participate in the "great project".

2010
NOVA - PBS
Excavating the Lost City
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/lehner-giza.html

Yes. The job of building a pyramid is hard for us in America to understand, because we have lost the sense of obligatory labor. But obligatory labor was very widespread in the pre-modern world, and as in all periods of Egyptian history it is likely that in this early-period labor was obligatory...............

Now, obligatory labor can range from slavery such as we know it from the southern United States in recent centuries to, say, the Amish building a barn.................

...............So what we have at our site is only one part of this Lost City.

And elsewhere in the world............................

2017
THE OLD WORLD 14,000-year-old village ‘older than Egyptian pyramids’ is unearthed in Canada and could reveal how civilization began in North America
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3297049/ancient-village-discovered-canada-triquet-island-civilisation-north-america/

The village on a remote island in British Columbia is estimated to be 14,000 years old - three times older than the Egyptian pyramids.