A few years back I visited the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza. I was and still am amazed at the complexity of their ability to engineer such a site. Anyone with thoughts on their acquisition of these skills. Please only intelligent responses.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.When I lived in South America I visited numerous archeological sites, including Machu Picchu and the Valley Sagrado, plus Carel which predates the Pyramid of Giza by several thousand years. Some of the stone work I saw was awe inspiring both for its intricacy and its sheer massiveness. This wall segment at the Inca fortress of Ollantaytambo is indicative of how accomplished the stonework is. I have built a lot of major buildings but none of my crew would be able to replicate this stonework, maybe if diamonds saws and argon pulse lasers were used but certainly not with stone and copper tools. It's a mystery and all the more so when you consider that the Inca say that these stone edifices predate their ancestors.
Surfpirate
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May 21, 2018
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Actually, these sort of places — whilst they impress me massively — don't surprise me. I'd guess that humans aren't any more evolved or intelligent now than we have been at any point in the past fifty thousand years or so. That we could do these things long, long ago is down to our skills as a species; we've always been crafters and designers and just as capable then as we are now. Don't forget that those guys were building on millennia of equally ancient skills too.
I get a similar feeling of wonderment at prehistoric cave-paintings — they're NOT primitive, they're stylised and a reflection of the equipment that their creators had to work with.
DaveMania
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May 21, 2018
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It blows my mind too. Especially the 50 ton blocks that are in place so tight you can't skid a piece of paper between them.
BucketlistBob
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May 21, 2018
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It sounds crazy, but I am keeping an open mind about influence by an alien culture. There were some cultures that had such advanced ideas, for their time...
DevraisA1
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May 21, 2018
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I agree, especially after reading the Sumerian texts, and Lloyd Pye's book, "Intervention Theory of Origins-of the Universe, of Life, of Hominoids, and of Humans."
But of course that might be the answer that BSquared is trying to avoid, when he said he wanted only "intelligent answers."
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