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To: Wuli
The Inca seemed to have devised a unique way of setting stone.

Like field stone fences, they found or created blocks of varying sizes that could be fitted. They then cut/chipped the stone down to a pretty close fit and applied a thin, special paste mortar when the stones were set. When wet the paste dissolved the last few millimeters of the rough faces of the stone, the paste washed out and the stone fit together with microscopic tolerances.

The close fit of irregular stone made the walls very earthquake resistant. Really freaking clever.

17 posted on 07/12/2024 7:56:59 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: pierrem15

Is that some archeological speculation (as thinking “it simply had to be that way”) or somehow known that that is what the Inca did (with stone)????


22 posted on 07/12/2024 8:06:51 AM PDT by Wuli
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