Ancient humans from places as distant as Unova and Kalos have left behind massive stone monuments that puzzled generations of observers, both as to the reason of their creation and their method, for these civilizations appeared to lack the technology to build these colossal monoliths, and had no obvious means of commanding sufficient manpower to do so.
It is notable, however, that all these civilizations lived in close contact with Boldore; before the monolith came the Gigalith. Although common today, Boldore were extremely valuable in these societies, for they were the most powerful domestic pokemon of the era, and in the rare events that their ownership was transferred – typically from inheritance, but rarely to trade for even more strange and valuable pokemon, or in times of desperation in exchange for food – it was realized that these transfers of ownership turned Boldore into even more valuable pokemon.
Today, Boldore are evolved by trading, typically for one another; should the recipient refuse to trade them back, both trainers would still be able to claim a Gigalith. But in ancient times, this was not always possible, for low population densities meant that it was rare for two people in the same village or hunter-gatherer clan to own a Boldore. These ancient, proto-civilized communities, then are said to have developed as a way not to control agriculture, but to ensure that those who traded weak pokemon to evolve Boldore traded back; it is difficult, after all, to compel individuals in possession of a pokemon as powerful as Gigalith. The communities soon developed large groups of Gigalith, and took advantage of these pokemon's ability to haul and carve stones to build monuments to their own greatness, many of which stand to this day, their inscriptions rendered undecipherable by the ravages of time.
