The tested soil samples (or rather organic inclusions there) are coming from rather limited soundings in different levels - but they remain largely detached from any noticeable (or in the paper thoroughly described) built structures, or other human-made contexts at all.
Yet the supposed "#megalithic structures" are mostly associated with #BasaltColumns - which, however, are a not unusual also naturally occurring phenomenon:
If basaltic #lava cools and solidifies with a certain delay, contraction results in polygonal #basalt columns.
By pure chance I spent the last weekend in the mountains here in Germany where a very similar phenomenon can be witnessed (and for what it's worth, Goethe thought it noteworthy too 🤷♂️ ).
Which, again, begs the question how this could've passed peer review - in particular considering the well-known #pseudoarchaeological narrative surrounding the whole site.
In present form these data do not at all help to clarify anything regarding #GunungPadang, I'm afraid.
PS: For a closer look on said problematic narratives surrounding the site of #GunungPadang have a look e.g. here at @cfeagans thoroughly referenced article:
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