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laid-out, while those requesting to reach the temple would have to go on foot on a tree-lined pathway or by community-managed transportation. The need also arose for an enhanced and more deterrent system of security, day and night, and a whole array of fences, gates and guards appeared in the collective life. But what else could one do? The community had not been able to consolidate the entire territory, where still lay private or communal lands and several public roads and pathways and it thus remained impossible to control all of the peripheral accesses.

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