Maybe not on easter island but in south america ive heard it suggested that you dont have to finely cut these stones. Place one stone and use a chemical compound created by mixing various plants as a mortar that eats away at the rocks and the weight of the rocks make it flush. Easy enough to test if they lifted or destroyed one rock to test the mortar.
Okay but where's the evidence of huge quantities of expendable humans? It's the same problem as current pyramid theories: the amount of anatomically modern humans required to make it would be in the millions. There's no evidence of of millions of humans in Egypt around that time.
Actually, this technique is not so hard to do. Just using sand while cutting the stone will make it extremely smooth + stone can grind another stone perfectly to fit them together.
The stones are not so important. The temples they built were acoustic marvels. Now, that is worthy to be explored in depth.
Just a side-note, copper can easily grind stone, actually most metals can. It's a question of density of the metal structure.
Copper tools ? :D
Maybe not on easter island but in south america ive heard it suggested that you dont have to finely cut these stones. Place one stone and use a chemical compound created by mixing various plants as a mortar that eats away at the rocks and the weight of the rocks make it flush. Easy enough to test if they lifted or destroyed one rock to test the mortar.
True but you still have to a) transport it b) mill it and c) stack it
Don't underestimate the power of huge quantities of expendable humans.
...but if you're gonna postulate that, you have to show there was 'caloric infrastructure' (as in, a food supply-chain) to power the slaves' muscles.
Okay but where's the evidence of huge quantities of expendable humans? It's the same problem as current pyramid theories: the amount of anatomically modern humans required to make it would be in the millions. There's no evidence of of millions of humans in Egypt around that time.
Actually, this technique is not so hard to do. Just using sand while cutting the stone will make it extremely smooth + stone can grind another stone perfectly to fit them together.
The stones are not so important. The temples they built were acoustic marvels. Now, that is worthy to be explored in depth.
Just a side-note, copper can easily grind stone, actually most metals can. It's a question of density of the metal structure.
Its not impressive even when its massive multi-ton stones that fit together so well that a human hair couldnt pass through the cracks?
It is impressive, no doubt. But I am saying that making a temple acoustic is far more impressive than the walls, wouldn't you agree?