Construction technics over time and 12000 miles apart.

... researching my Greek ancestors...

I have seen how the stones could have been made so perfectly. It is a fit, and re-fit operation. They use rocks or what ever tools were at hand, and pound down a flat surface, leaving the dust where it is. Then when they think it is flat, they put the next block on top, which has already been worked flat on the bottom. Then they pick it up, and see where the dust either mounds up, or is pushed away. Then a second or third round of hammering out the unevenness, and everything fits perfectly. When you have thousands of laborors, and no deadline by the end of the day, all kinds of things can be accomplished.

Steve
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It is a fit, and re-fit operation. They use rocks or what ever tools were at hand, and pound down a flat surface, leaving the dust where it is. Then when they think it is flat, they put the next block on top, which has already been worked flat on the bottom. Then they pick it up, and see where the dust either mounds up, or is pushed away. Then a second or third round of hammering out the unevenness, and everything fits perfectly

It is difficult with big heavy stones, but works the same way. I'm not sure how long it took them to do each stone, but the instructions seemed to be as long as it takes until it is right. Then on to the next one.

It's interesting the same tequniques are still being used today. When something works, it works!

Steve
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It is a fit, and re-fit operation. They use rocks or what ever tools were at hand, and pound down a flat surface, leaving the dust where it is. Then when they think it is flat, they put the next block on top, which has already been worked flat on the bottom. Then they pick it up, and see where the dust either mounds up, or is pushed away. Then a second or third round of hammering out the unevenness, and everything fits perfectly

That sounds very much to me like the procedure done by precision mechanical engineers, using engineers blue, to scrape two surfaces to mate. As an apprentice toolmaker I did it manty times. The point is that if the metal pieces were small enough you could "spot grind" the pair of them and not waste time! A bit difficult with large stones!

We have an exact copy of the Parthenon right here in Nashville. No sweat at all, it was built for the Centennial of Tennessee in 1897. They don't call Nashville the "Athens of the South" for nothing

Hi Xclusive,

Wow Chris. I worked for a machine building company many years back. Reading Steve's post made me think of exactly that. The blue and the waxy brown stuff. Rub the two parts together, and hand scrape the high spots that get died blue.

When the scraping is done properly, there is LESS than .0005" variance.

Both the "marking out" blue, and the "scraping blue" may be referred to as engineer's blue, which can lead to substantial confusion. In the US, the terms machinist's blue, scraping blue, or simply bluing are used instead of engineer's blue.

Do you mean Tiwanaku ?

Tiwanaku

Why did they have to learn it from a mysterious "somewhere" or "someone"? Why couldn't they have figured it out on their own? I think that you're selling our ancestors short if you think they were too primitive to figure it out.

Here is a thought for the day. We would have great difficulty constructing some of these stone edifices today even with 21st Century machinery, so how did they do it 2500 years ago? However today we can construct buildings like the Petronas Towers which they couldn't do in their time. So ergo, we have knowledge that they didn't and vice versa.

It is quite common today to bury plans of a building in a time capsule in the foundations somewhere, I wonder if modern x ray techniques could determine if the ancient builders did the same?