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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (186)	11/29/2007 7:20:32 PM
From: Stan	Respond to of 9626

Our advanced technological generation is constantly amazed and even incredulous that ancient societies could do such remarkable things. I know I am. I think that we secretly resent that these unsophisticated cultures could accomplish anything we couldn't. That idea led me to write this little satire for the "Short Stories - 50 Words or Less" thread: A Reasonable Find "We've discovered a civilization from 9,000 bc," announced the elated Archaeologist to the symposium. "They constructed a 14 foot high pyramid containing approximately 300 half-ton stones. In an easily decipherable script, they wrote that it was the best they could do." "It's about time," someone in the audience shouted. Message 7083974

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (186)	11/29/2007 9:01:36 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 9626

It is exquisite indeed. Something that tight has to be dressed after achieving the basic shape, so it's probably a combination of methods. Human beings are so amazing. Some individuals are disappointing. And others are just giants with almost godlike powers.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (186)	11/30/2007 12:09:19 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9626

I saw a TV show that went to the Andes and got the natives to replicate some of that stone work. They measured for the rock cuts by scribing, just like when building a Scandinavian full scribe log cabin... Measuring the rocks to fit tightly did not seem that hard. But it required lots of manpower to cut the rock, because they were pounding one rock against another to cut it one tiny chip at a time. The ancients probably had lots of apprentices doing the rough cutting, with a select group of master carvers to finish up the exact fits.