Why do they never think people can stack rocks? : insanepeoplefacebook

[+] [email protected] -10 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I mean, who hasn’t carved and stacked ten-ton rocks into perfect form-fitting shape? Heck when i was but a wee lad, me and the boys would knock out fifty or sixty a day, down at ye olde Quarry ‘n Carry. Build huge town walls and knock ‘em down a week later. Then we’d invent agriculture and see who could spit the farthest.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Why do you think that's difficult to do? You carve a rock into a shape, then you see what gaps there are between that shape and the other shapes and you carve another rock to fit it. And when you have hundreds of people in the quarry carving rocks and years to do it, it gets done.

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[+] [email protected] -12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To this person's credit, the rate that the Inca developed advanced stone masonry techniques is considered a bit of a mystery. It's believed that they got them from another culture. That also had very advanced masonry techniques. The mysterious part of it is that both cultures don't have any developmental history.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

There is no "believed" about it, and there is a lot of developmental history, so I don't know why you're saying that.

For example, there's Tiwanaku. There are many sites preceding it and post-dating it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiwanaku

There were a huge number of Andean civilizations that came before the Inca and many of them had plenty of experience working stone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Andean_civilizations

The Inca were just the last in a long line of civilizations in that area.

Furthermore, carving and stacking stones doesn't take a genius.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (7 children)

I think your under estimating how incredibly good at "stacking stones" these cultures where.

Protzen, Jean-Pierre. "Inca Quarrying and Stone Cutting."Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 44.2 (1985): 161-182. Print

Protzen, Juan-Pierre. "Who Taught the Inca Stonemasons Their Skills? A Comparison of Tiahuanaco and Inca Cut- Stone Masonry." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 56.2 (1997): 146-167

Here is my source material. In it it goes over the extreme tolerances and incredible craftsmanship of the Inca and Tiahuanaco. It's not like laying brick or stone masonry (also difficult) we do with mortar today.

Also these structures are made by a bunch of people working over years and in the Incas over vast distances. All done with out written language or at least one we fully understand. (I am aware of quipu) So they had the infrastructure and advanced enough society to train and standardize there building techniques.

Tiahuanaco are considered more advanced than the Inca and their collapse predated the founding of the Inca empire by roughly 600 to 500 years. Not saying they couldn't of provided some sort of inspiration for the Inca. But it also makes them more impressive and proves my point.

You should actually read the wiki if you're going to cite it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Feel free to explain it then. Which is it going to be, Aliens or Aryans from Atlantis?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Furthermore, carving and stacking stones doesn't take a genius.

You have been banned from r/freemasons.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they really did independently discover some masonry! We will never know!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Individual cultures coming up with the idea of carving and stacking stones? Independently? Without the help of aliens or an Aryan progenitor race?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

“I like to stack. I want to go to an ancient civilisation now. No, now!”

[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Remarkable feats of engineering that are recreated by children every day with blocks of wood.

Truly baffling indeed.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Okay, but we haven't ruled out the possibility that the children are being trained by aliens.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Well if they could do me a solid and teach me how to use Unity in my sleep that would be fucking ace.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Nah, the aliens are too smart to use Unity after that run-time licensing bullshit they pulled last year.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Hey, listen. They're a hyper-advanced space faring super race, but they've still got limits.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (2 children)

::: spoiler Jagged tiny metal saw causes walls to open baffling Facebook users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

LMAO

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Also ancient technology.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

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