My theory about the nubs: these show the places where the stones were attached to the bedrock until the final excavation. These stones were often huge and therefore broken into smaller pieces. That explains why the nubs are usually on the side of the stones/blocks. There are several ways to do this, either with temperature (extreme heat for example) or mechanical by the use of for example wedges. In this way you end up with stones that fit together perfectly. After this, the stones were polished by the means of moving water mixed with sand/stones. Just like you polish stones nowadays with rock tumblers. The elaborate water management structures being found in Peru and Egypt might be build just for this; Not (only) for irrigation, but as a way to perfect their architecture and building materials. No clue how they transported these huge blocks or how they managed to produce perfect square stones with straight cuts, but i guess water played an essential role in this too. I think that this process of 'polishing' took place when the blocks were still attached to the original rock, therefore the nubs have a polished side, but seem to be 'broken off' at the surface. Do some of the old quarries not show unfinished work with smaller attachments to the original rock?
Whoa Nelly!! Looks mean and old. Thank you for sharing. Peace
My theory about the nubs: these show the places where the stones were attached to the bedrock until the final excavation. These stones were often huge and therefore broken into smaller pieces. That explains why the nubs are usually on the side of the stones/blocks. There are several ways to do this, either with temperature (extreme heat for example) or mechanical by the use of for example wedges. In this way you end up with stones that fit together perfectly. After this, the stones were polished by the means of moving water mixed with sand/stones. Just like you polish stones nowadays with rock tumblers.
The elaborate water management structures being found in Peru and Egypt might be build just for this; Not (only) for irrigation, but as a way to perfect their architecture and building materials.
No clue how they transported these huge blocks or how they managed to produce perfect square stones with straight cuts, but i guess water played an essential role in this too.
I think that this process of 'polishing' took place when the blocks were still attached to the original rock, therefore the nubs have a polished side, but seem to be 'broken off' at the surface.
Do some of the old quarries not show unfinished work with smaller attachments to the original rock?
A megalithic man! 🤗
Hey Brien, Nice to see Big Rob, can you film Brian next, lol
Haven’t seen my Bros since 2018
What’s up with the bottoms of the 2nd course stones? Those strange indentations that are only on those stones at their very bottoms.
What type of stone is this? Is it basalt?
Restacked lipid or it was just that way from decomposing &/or fossilization.
Polygon masonry mimics cell structures doing their best not to let anything in or out to do with safety and control and energy i.e. biogeometry,!
If you go to Japan and visit the castles there, you will see similar structures at their base.
Very cool. Do you know the names of the castles?
@@brendontompa-clinch2306 The most famous one is Osaka Castle.
It was made by AI machine