Comments by "Austin Kole Carlisle" (@AustinKoleCarlisle) on "SACSAYHUAMAN - How They Did It | Polygonal Masonry" video.

cutting logs does not equal stone. but i wouldn't expect less from channels that rely on intellectually dishonest arguments such as this. three conditions need to be met in order to be considered a true reproduction: scale (size), quality (material hardness, etc), and precision (the degree of detail). this theory meets none of those conditions.
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@WorldofAntiquity so you're just speculating then. and poorly, at that.
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@WorldofAntiquity oh? we certainly have proof where earthquake damage is present. Machu Picchu and Preah Vihear Temple are good examples, two entirely different cultures that just happened to figure out how to build in a way that we can't even properly explain today. here is the footage with timestamp: Machu Pichu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz0LDHk0_r0&t=9m25s Cambodia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGBohb_2xx0&t=9m Where the stones are separated, you can see how the rocks perfectly conform to each other throughout the depth of the joints, not just at the facade.
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@WorldofAntiquity will you or will you not respond to the video evidence I provided to you in my reply above? i'd love to know your theory on how this type of stonework was created by supposedly independent cultures around the world but was never continued anywhere nor do we have any reasonable idea how it was achieved.
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@WorldofAntiquity you're purposefully avoiding this issue i (and others) keep bringing up, which is how so many supposedly isolated cultures all around the world all developed this building style where the stones perfectly mate throughout the depths of the joints, even curving three-dimensionally, but yet it was continued nowhere and nobody really knows how it was done aside from baseless speculation like the videos you feature on your channel. to even come close to reproducing these walls today, we would need the assistance of CNC machines. that's a fact.
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@WorldofAntiquity in that's your reasoning, then just admit you dont know how it was done.
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@WorldofAntiquity you're being intellectually dishonest in your argument because we both know the mystery is the razor-tight fitting joints, not the exterior looks of the wall. the walls vary in appearance all over the world, *but they all have perfectly mating surfaces that extend throughout the depth of the joints*. This is found in Cambodia, Easter Island, Peru, Egypt, Lebanon, India, etc. What is your argument now? That all of these supposedly isolated cultures all developed this method AND seemingly "forgot" how to continue building in this manner? Oh, and they all figured it out before any other building styles because anywhere these walls are found, they're never overtop of another style of stonework indicating a very advanced age ANYWHERE they are found. My oh my, THAT is a huge coincidence, don't you think?
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@WorldofAntiquity i fail to see how the methods presented on this channel could truly replicate the INTRICACY and PRECISION that we see on some ancient polygonal stone walls. again, just for the record, the kind i'm talking about have perfectly mating surfaces that extend THREE_DIMENSIONALLY throughout the depth of the joint, not just at the facade. most notable examples would be Ollantaytambo, Preah Vihar Temple in Cambodia, Machu Picchu, Jupiter Temple in Baalbek, and various examples in Egypt. Nowhere these walls are found are they overtop of another building style.
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@WorldofAntiquity I just wanted to reiterate for the public that reads this comment thread that you apparently have no idea how this type of polygonal construction was independently created in so many supposedly isolated cultures, and that you rely solely on misrepresentation and speculation to make your arguments.
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