(Apologies to Ivan Reitman.)
The folks who say “modern tools” have never used any other tools except what’s in a hardware store. Power tools just save time. It’s the same shit that we could do thousands of years ago by hand and determination (or elbow grease for those who build character). Machu Pichu was made by people and anyone can go visit it - the city is made of stones the size of cars all fitted together in irregular patterns and joined without mortar. If those “modern tools” folks knew masonry they would understand how incredible it is to build without mortar and have it withstand 400 years in a jungle with no maintenance.
With enough time and not enough else to do, a village can carve a mountain using sand and water. Fuck modernity. Embrace persistence.
Are you saying they must have some sort of… chisel technology? Could this be possible?
I was thinking more some kind of rudimentary lathe
(this sound bite lives rent free in my head)
Do you think if humans ever achieve interstellar flight and discover a less technologically advanced species that we’ll just show them how to use big stick to move big rock and then fly away smug af and high fiving?
“Awesome prank, bro… but do you think we could anally probe a few next time?”
“What’s with you and probes, Gary?”“Gary, they don’t have anuses. Seriously man, are you ok?”
Sandstone is relatively soft. They could easily carve it with tools made from harder stones. A hammer and chisel is not necessary.
Grinding is another possibility. Rubbing rocks together isn’t a very complicated technology.
I was making sandstone pyramids as a child. Ground them on the sidewalk.
Are… are you an alien?
They even carved the history channel logo into the center!
Interested in seeing someone tear apart claims like this? Search Miniminuteman on YouTube. He has short and long form content. I have never cared about archeology in the past, but his snarky wit makes it interesting.
Of course they can’t carve “this”.
They can’t carve anything since they’re all long dead.
