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21st October 2017, 10:50 PM | #561 |
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KOTA, have you ever looked into the Beaker people/culture?
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The building technique that I 'think' was employed would not have produced debris. I believe the blocks (some) were molded not carved. This would also have required fewer laborers. One machine that molds stone would be easier to vanish than thousands of stone or bronze hammers. Where's the debris field, worker's complex, or written language required for the stoneworks' construction?
I'm saying it didn't happen that way, or there would be evidence because there would ABSOLUTELY BE remains still around if it was that young. It is older, much much older, and the techniques used were NOT hammers and abrasives, but a technique 'lost' to time. We do NOT 'know' how these stones were fashioned. Claiming they were carved with bronze or stone hammers is pure fiction with zero evidence, period. *ETA: Okay, not pure fiction. It is a weak theory with little validity. |
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Did they invent the science-beaker?
How old IS pottery? http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2009/...oldest-pottery |
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Taken from: http://www.aeraweb.org/wp-content/up...am5_2_2002.pdf
"We worked in this area ahead of a team constructing a high security wall that will enclose the Giza Plateau, running on the eastern side of the site along the modem road. This wall is part of the site management program of Dr. Zahi Hawass..." Yep, that sounds very hands-off. |
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Michael Shermer vs. "alternative history" Hancock and Crandall
Has Atlantis - the Lost Continent ever been proved fictional?
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22nd October 2017, 07:15 AM | #569 |
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Gold and silver coinage in ancient America? News to me. Examples, please.
Elephants - you mean you think these were used as domesticated animals both in the Old World and the New? If you mean palaentological or fossil evidence dating from before humans were in the Americas, what about horses? Where are the common number notations you refer to? The Mayas had vigesimal place value notation; the Egyptians had no place value. The Babylonians had it. The Gregorian calendar was introduced in 1582, not at the end of the Ice Age. It was carried into America by the Spaniards who by that time were already there. [ETA: to be precise on this point, wiki tells us that On 29 September 1582, Philip II of Spain decreed the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. This affected much of Roman Catholic Europe, as Philip was at the time ruler over Spain and Portugal as well as much of Italy. ... The Spanish and Portuguese colonies followed somewhat later de facto because of delay in communication./ETA] It was not adopted by Britain until 1752, and by Russia until 1918. It is not an ancient invention found in all continents. What is this rubbish you're handing us now? |
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Do hunter gatherers have kilns?
How many people does it take to support one kiln, in the pre-idusterial world? We are talking about fires that burn over 1000 degrees for several hours, some pottery showing evidence of reaching over 1400 degrees. Does this require, or rather is this evidence of an 'advanced civilization?' |
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I love it when people use the fact of there being ancient pyramids in more than one place as being evidence of something strange going on, rather than as evidence that putting stones in a pile is the most efficient method of stacking them and the most likely to survive through the years.
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No. A fire in a kiln for several hours proves the existence of kilns and control of fire - and that the civilisation possessing them lasted for longer than several hours.
Were these by any chance electric kilns? No? Too bad. Not advanced technology then. Fire is pretty basic technology. Cave dwellers had it. |
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If that is your current subject of thought, you will wish urgently to consider my points about calendars and bananas. You will also wish to give details of these similar base sizes, and the "scores of other connections" you observe in ancient pyramids.
Pyramids are about the only shape of high buildings that can be made if only primitive techniques are available. If you pile up a heap of sand without any design, it will, quite naturally, assume a roughly pyramidal shape. That's why these early buildings, if high ones, were constructed in that pyramidal form. |
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No. Nor pyramids either. Neither existed at the end of the Ice Age.
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Yes we have theories on how it was done. Of course the Spanish observed the Incan workers building stuff and the Incan workers were from Tiwanaku.
The problem with the 'molded' idea is that image of an incomplete block from PP that I have showed you. It shows a block with parts completed, started and in the rough. Please explain how your theory covers that? The core stones of the pyramid are not molded nor are any known structure - unless they made different molds for each stone......... Additionally we have their quarries - why quarry rock, break it up (a hard task) only to reform it? Madness. 'The blanks' in the walls of quarries show quite clearly they removed blocks and weren't 'rubbling' it which is what you would need for 'concrete' or molding. Additionally you avoided my full question: it will be repeated until answered. You said that a civilization must have the following to carve stone (sic)
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Because a movie isn't evidence and the folks who made it were using REALLY out of date fringe information. Most of what they said was known to be wrong at that time. I believe they took that info from Donnelly's 1882 book called, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World |
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Oh and all the other ones too? That not the only stone like that. What about those quarries with obvious squares cut out??
Still trying to avoid questions I see...lol..... okay you get three times then you concede you were wrong. Quote: you said the following was needed for a civilization to carve stone
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......or do you concede that you are wrong. Now lets see your evidence for molding - I do hope you don't mention the Giza pyramids....lol |
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He built a wall around the place, and single-handed approved dig permits for decades, and you are arguing because he resigned a few years ago, but that he has no say anymore...?
Well, that settles it, I am now certain, Egyptology is finally an open democratic study, wherein actual historic truth is pursued. |
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Before the discovery of seafloor spreading the hypothesis of sunken continents was from time to time suggested to explain similar phenomena on both sides of oceans, like the similar plants and animals on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. But now we know that the Atlantic has opened and closed more than once in geological times, so the need for the hypothesis of vanished mystery continents has disappeared. There is no evidence for Atlantis, although it was a rational hypothesis in the nineteenth century, to explain the things I mentioned.
So we don't need to prove it didn't exist. As with all hypotheses, the burden of proof falls on people who say that things DO exist to prove they do. There is no requirement on anyone to prove they don't. |
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1. Why haven't you seen that already. I mean you're still not commenting on material for which you have not yet read the foundational documents? I see no reason to spoon feed you material you refuse to read and will reject upon seeing it.
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2002 vs 2011 do the math..............chuckle
Playing dumb huh? Still unable to admit you were wrong, tsk tsk. Its okay everyone can see you trying desperately to wiggle out. Yep you are STILL wrong about Hawass.... I'm interested in seeing how long you will keep this up.....lol |
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Stone Molding Machines?
That don't produce identical stones? Each one is different. How does a STM work? Where is the supporting infrastructure that produced the STM? Technology like that would not exist in isolation, there would be factories to produce it, factories to produce the machines that are in the STM factory. Power plants, factories to produce the power plants, factories to produce the materials that made the machines that produced the power plants and so on. Sophisticated and advanced technology needs sophisticated and advanced infrastructure to produce it. Take Railways for example. They the culmination of hundreds of years of development in science, technology and engineering that includes material science, engineering, physics, thermodynamics, metallurgy, mining, architecture, electricity, education, administration and logistics . Trains didn't just appear fully formed on the tracks and start running. |
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When did bananas evolve? Why wouldn't bananas be found on both continents later, when they separated?
What is the date of the Egyptian pyramids and pyramids in the Americas? Why would they be the same builders? Are the creatures , days, months and so on, the same in the western Zodiac and the Aztec calendar? |
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Yeah PP is only 1700-1500 years old so its a bit hard to pretend they were built 10,000 years ago.
An assessment of the existing C-14 and ceramic datings of PP an associated sites: https://www.researchgate.net/profile...0ee27aadc0.pdf |
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Simply repeating your unevidenced and ridiculous claim does not make it any less ridiculous, nor does this count as evidence.
To reiterate: how do you know what is in private collections that you have never seen? Do you have any answers to my other points beyond evasion and attempts to change the subject? (No, I will not be Googling 'unexplainable ancient machines'. That will in no way answer my questions). If the evidence is yet to be found, as you claim, how do you know this, and how can you rely on as yet undiscovered evidence to support your ideas? |
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One, do you have a citation for spears 400,000 years old, because I need that feather for mine own hat. *Found it. http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/...t-wooden-spear
WOW...what does that mean? What sort of civilization might yield such an artifact? *Depending on the size of the stone structure- large settlements, MANY tools, debris, and YES- a written language is required to building interlocking stones, such as those found at PP. Use whatever font you'd like, it breaks up the monotony. |
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Are archaeological excavations performed by people chosen by "open democratic participation" - a vote on who should be there with a trowel? I thought the procedure was a science, not a public event.
Does this apply to other things, like surgical operations? Who gets to participate in the vote? In the case of surgery I suppose the patient might qualify, but in Egyptology referendums, is it the mummy who casts the deciding ballot? Or the Sphinx? Or some gang of Pyramidiots collecting material for a new book? |
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Getting a dig permit at Giza requires three things: (or more correct as it was, it may have changed under the new leadership)
1. You must submit a proposal for your project that outlines all aspects of it, from who, what, where, when, how and why - with emphasis on how it will be funded and any possible damage it might do and what is the expected outcome (documentary, paper, book, etc). 2. Your proposal must be guaranteed by an existing and acceptable academic/governmental/business enterprise, usually with one that has prior experience doing excavation/that type of project in Egypt. 3. You must agree in writing to all the rules set by the SCA to include forwarding all findings to them before publication and they may, if they wish, announce them themselves before publication takes place. So if Suzie and Doug show up with two hundred kgs of C-4 to dynamite the Sphinx to find Cacye's 'Hall of records' they ain't goin anywhere. |
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Yes. Hand formed pottery is a byproduct of open fire cooking and dates back 20,000 years.
The oldest potter's wheel however is only 5,000 years old from Mesopotamia. That is another big hole for your claim lifted from that 1961 fantasy movie "Atlantis: The Lost Continent". There was no pottery made on a wheel at Göbekli Tepe |
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