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Re: Inca Stone Masonry

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Post by jamiek88 »

undershirt wrote: post #29
elif wrote: post #27

This is an incredible writeup. I've visited almost all of these sites to inspect the masonry, spent weeks researching, pestered tour guides and museum workers for oral history, and still I learned things in reading this article. However there is one aspect which I think is incomplete. When you closely inspect the seams of some of the non-layered works like sacsayhuaman, we are talking about 2mm precision along curved…

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“ spiritual access to directed free-energy at the magnetic equator for dustifying/liquifying”

What? These words are English yet carry no meaning to me. Ancient people had clever engineers, just like us. Fuck all to do with magnetic spirituality whatever the fuck that is.

Every time there’s a thread about ancient engineering someone insists on this woo or different woo involving aliens.

Fucking tired of the arrogance and sheer dismissal of ancient people’s achievements.

Free energy at the magnetic equator. Fucks sake.

Re: Inca Stone Masonry

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Post by helterskelter »

elif wrote: post #27

This is an incredible writeup. I've visited almost all of these sites to inspect the masonry, spent weeks researching, pestered tour guides and museum workers for oral history, and still I learned things in reading this article. However there is one aspect which I think is incomplete. When you closely inspect the seams of some of the non-layered works like sacsayhuaman, we are talking about 2mm precision along curved…

> the use of rope or string, sand, and water to finely cut stones and gems

I haven't heard this one before, that's a great idea. Here's a YouTube video of somebody doing this with jade if anybody is curious:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w_9MCNgY2Ww

Re: Inca Stone Masonry

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Post by Hoasi »

bdhcuidbebe wrote: post #18
jstanley wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The theory is that there was an older and more advanced civilisation that built them using more advanced techniques which are now lost. And the Inca inherited pre-existing structures. The Inca did do stonework of their own, but not close to the standard exhibited in this article.

Thats not a theory. Its the plot of a netflix entertainment show by famous sharlatan journalist (not a scientist, not an archeolog) Graham Hancock.

Anything goes, these days…

Re: Inca Stone Masonry

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Post by nkrisc »

undershirt wrote: post #29
elif wrote: post #27

This is an incredible writeup. I've visited almost all of these sites to inspect the masonry, spent weeks researching, pestered tour guides and museum workers for oral history, and still I learned things in reading this article. However there is one aspect which I think is incomplete. When you closely inspect the seams of some of the non-layered works like sacsayhuaman, we are talking about 2mm precision along curved…

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Take two stones of similar roughness and rub them together for many, many hours. Eventually you'll have to flat surfaces that fit almost perfectly together. Beyond that, it's not hard to see how some skilled craftsmen with some knowledge of geometry (and lots of laborers and a royal mandate) could construct what the Inca did.

What they built is incredibly impressive, but you don't need to invoke magic woo to explain it.

Re: Inca Stone Masonry

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Post by anon84873628 »

I recently came across some geopolymer / alkali activated material stuff on YouTube. Fascinating technology - you can in fact print a house or cast "liquid stone" into ceramic. Seems like companies are using it for expanding foam insulation now too.

The "natron hypothesis" seems to make more sense in Egypt where: Natron and granite powder are just laying around, the blocks are all regular rectangular shape, there are murals that seem to describe the process, and they have large high quality artifacts made from diorite which is the hardest thing around.

Of course that doesn't mean it was used everywhere in the ancient world, and this article does a great job discounting it for the Inca.

I'd love to know if there is some detailed microscopy and chemical analysis underway to see if geopolymer use can be proven in Egypt.

Re: Inca Stone Masonry

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Post by begueradj »

nkrisc wrote: post #34
undershirt wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Take two stones of similar roughness and rub them together for many, many hours. Eventually you'll have to flat surfaces that fit almost perfectly together. Beyond that, it's not hard to see how some skilled craftsmen with some knowledge of geometry (and lots of laborers and a royal mandate) could construct what the Inca did. What they built is incredibly impressive, but you don't need to invoke magic woo to explain…

How will you do that to stones of granite, quartz or stishovite ? Several authors and experts of all kind say what you said and what the article states are completely unfeasible.

Re: Inca Stone Masonry

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Post by Isamu »

A great article that starts by not discounting the written accounts that are available.

I am reminded that the Maya language decipherment really moved forward once the written account by Diego De Landa was taken seriously.

Re: Inca Stone Masonry

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Post by WalterBright »

nkrisc wrote: post #34
undershirt wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Take two stones of similar roughness and rub them together for many, many hours. Eventually you'll have to flat surfaces that fit almost perfectly together. Beyond that, it's not hard to see how some skilled craftsmen with some knowledge of geometry (and lots of laborers and a royal mandate) could construct what the Inca did. What they built is incredibly impressive, but you don't need to invoke magic woo to explain…

It doesn't take many many hours. I saw a TV documentary on it, it can be done in a half hour with stones the size of a box of kleenex. The archaeologist would also add sand in between the two surfaces to speed it up.

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Post by bondarchuk »

jamiek88 wrote: post #31
undershirt wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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“ spiritual access to directed free-energy at the magnetic equator for dustifying/liquifying” What? These words are English yet carry no meaning to me. Ancient people had clever engineers, just like us. Fuck all to do with magnetic spirituality whatever the fuck that is. Every time there’s a thread about ancient engineering someone insists on this woo or different woo involving aliens. Fucking tired of the arrogance…

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