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They also have to move 50 tons of rocks. Pretty big work.
But a yurt needs way more expertise to make from scratch. And various resources. And degrades faster with time, a stonewall like that could be there for hundreds of years, with little maintenance.
Maybe just making a dome shape from long branches and throwing up some modern materials over it would be the quickest and best. But they didn't aim for that.