There is a “vacuum” in the scholarly research or what you call it.
Since the mainstream archaeology can’t, or won’t, talk about certain aspects, then there is the opportunity for every nutjob on the planet to write a book about it. (probably when they are taking a break from the Kennedy assasination lecture circuit)
What the ancients did with limestone is impressive, no doubt, but the real question is how they were able to cut, shape, and move truly massive granite, basalt, and diorite blocks and statues with a precision that astounds modern engineers and stoneworkers. It doesn’t have to be “aliens” but there is no adequate explanation without revising completely the narrative of early human development. The gist of it seems to be there were pre-flood or pre-cataclysm civilizations. This is something modern academia will not accept.
All of these amazing structures - whether in Egypt or Peru - were built by illiterate savages with stone pounders and copper chisels.
Never mind that the stone cut surfaces in granite show clear evidence of circular saws with diameters in several feet - and hollow tube drills with cutting feed rates of 0.1” per revolution in granite. It is AMAZING and there is simply no adequate explanation.
HUGE stone blocks quarried and moved hundreds of miles up mountains, cut and shaped with, in some instances 8, 10, or even 12 sides - notched and fitted with a high level of precision, and with no mortar. The scientists tells us they were made 400 or 900 years ago. Everyone knows this is BS.
But you’ll lose your job or sinecure if you don’t toe the official narrative. Really strange.
Well, you mean like this?
Dovetailing from your point, on the 2 pyramids in this article, and the sphinx, there are clearly observed watermarks.
This has been a decisive topic in itself for decades.
Obviously a lot has happened in the past which is not PC and anathema to those seeking to divert attention from reality.
There appears little doubt that iron or nickel steel from iron meteors made the tools necessary. What happened to them?
In the thousands of years following the tools (which were made of invaluable iron) were melted down to make other tools and so the original stone shaping and cutting tools disappeared. Now there is nothing left.
So the silly people following the dictum of Gradualism could not admit that there was not a steady progression from stone to copper, to bronze, to iron, to steel. And here we are with their nonsensical conclusions.
Sort of like the Sumerian Civilization springing mysteriously up from nothing with a complete alphabet, writing, astronomy, mathematics, navigation, bureaucracy, trading system, etc overnight.
Like Galileo inventing the telescope when there is abundant evidence that optically ground diopter lens were in use as far back as the Egyptian Old Kingdom; telescopes were likely in use during Roman times. Today these lens are just curiosities stuffed into some musty back of the museum display case labeled ‘Jewelry’. “Move along,” says the tour guide, “just pretty pieces, ancient eye candy. Now look over here at these beautifully crafted copper tools ...” and so it goes.