[wildbill]

I found this guy giving various theories on how the Ancient Architects MAY have used natural forces or adapted some common technology to cut and polish granite stones without modern technologies. This is another one of this series and we have gotten a lot of comments and praises and criticisms which are all to the good.

I doubt we'll come to a conclusion that everyone buys into, but I damn sure ain't buying into the theory they used more rocks and rock hammers for the finer work.

[golux]

My understanding is that, not unlike the Wal-Marts of today, they used Chinese pre-teens to do much of the more specialized work.

[bigbob]

So, did they stand around a chunk of rock and yell at it, do ya think?

[Fred Nerks]

Certainly thought-provoking, thanks for posting.

[Albion Wilde]

bump for later

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Intriguing, to be sure.

[DoughtyOne]

I saw a guy successfully demonstrate how to fit large stones together. He used a technique of slamming a smaller stone against the large, thus chipping off the right amount to allow stones to fit very tightly.

It was a demonstration revealing that this is one way a person could have produced those stones in South America, that fit very tightly.

His example was impressive.

[SkyDancer]

Goes along with the Egyptians floating stones to build the pyramids.

[UnwashedPeasant]

"How the Ancients Cut Stone with Sound Waves"

They used rock music.

[a fool in paradise]

PING-ing-ing-ing-ing-ing...

[TexasGator]

I learned that steel is a non-ferrous metal!

[bunkerhill7]

How the ancients cut stone with microwave ovens
There fixed it

[aquila48]

The proof is in the pudding.

He kept talking how they could have done it with a tuning fork, even theorized what the parameters should be, but never got around to demonstrating one actually working.

[TChad]

If it was possible to cut stones using tuning forks, we should be able to do that today. We can cut things with sound by using powered ultrasonic cutters, but not using unpowered tuning forks.

[jmacusa]

If you could use sound waves to cut stone you’d have no ear drums left.

[Dixie Yooper]

I avoid The History Channel on Fridays and Saturdays, but the goofy sounding narrator guy who only speaks in questions, always catches up with me on Tuesday for Curse of Oak Island.