People carved stone for a long time, however I showed pictures of stone that was machined, not carved. Besides, it's granite, they didn't carve perfect angles, drill holes, by banging rocks together.
Here is a core, if you look you can see the marks where it was drilled with a measured depth per revolution.
Here is another, there are countless numbers of these, so it was a process that was pretty easy for these people. They were not made by banging rocks together.
I'm sorry, but you're simply very ignorant of the skill the ancients had when it came to stone. ALL of this work is well understood, regardless of the fact that we have since lost the skill ourselves. That you haven't made it your business to find out exactly how it was done, tells me you don't really want to understand at all.
And how much time have you spent studying the bona fide archaeological findings on this stuff? My guess is none.
That's a little childish, but I will answer it. These are written between 3000 and 6000 years ago, They speak of things that did not exist, weapons, flying machines. I can only think of two possibilities. Either they had some really good sci-fi writers, for the stone age book clubs, Or these people witnessed something. actually I have spent some time on these, I started in the 70's, long before we had internet. But the time I spent is not important. The important part is how did they drill these through granite.
Actually I worked with machinery all my life, and I can see how it was done. It was made with a hole saw, attached to a machine similar to a modern drill press, or lathe, to dig a measured amount per revolution. However we did not have those machines thousands of years ago. In fact, this is granite, I don't think we have a machine today that can dig at that rate.
It's childish to pretend that Harry Potter isn't exactly the same as your dusty old fictions. But go on, tell me how the dust adds weight to primitive mythologies? As long as humans have existed, we've been making stuff up to explain that which we didn't understand. You know this, but have chosen to pretend it isn't so. If you have studied the archaeology, you will know that all of these ancient stone monuments were hand built. You saying you 'don't understand how they did it', tells me you haven't studied it at all, or have chosen to ignore the paragraphs which actually explain it. Your credulousness is strange. There are PLENTY of arts and skills we've lost over time. It's a natural consequence of no longer requiring them. Try getting your average modern stonemason to build an aqueduct, and see how far you get. And that's just for starters.
No, you are simply refusing to acknowledge the skill of our ancient masons. For your own very specific purposes (belief in Alien visitations).
That was really dumb. Sure there were archeological explanations years ago, that just are not valid anymore. Nobody knows how the pyramids were made. or what they were used for. The latest theory is a power plant. And you can't have magic stone cutting, in thousands of places all over the planet, on every continent, and the people forgot how to do it, and nobody can explain it today. You are in a fantasy world.
Obviously you know nothing about machinery. I can look at virtually any object, and tell you if it was hand made, or machine made. so can any machinist. In most cases I can tell you what machine was used. And none of them existed thousands of years ago. There is no valid archeological explanation for a whole lot of this stuff.
LOLOL Look at the core, look at the hole in the rock. These are different ones, but the same type of equipment. Look at the persons hand, we can estimate size, Look at the scars in the rock, they spiral downward. They are marks made by a cutting tool. Digging about 1/8 inch per revolution. This is also a very deep tool, drilling 8 or 10 inches before the core is split from the base.
So, believing that Aliens visited Earth in UFOs (from somewhere .... out there, for some reason), built a bunch of stone stuff, for some reason, then left .. is far more sane that just accepting that many skills have been lost because we no longer need them? Riiiiiight.
So, believing that Aliens visited Earth in UFOs (from somewhere .... out there, for some reason), built a bunch of stone stuff, for some reason, then left .. is far more sane that just accepting that many skills have been lost because we no longer need them? Riiiiiight.
At WHAT RATE? Your words "at that rate". You do understand that in the context of a drill, rate means 'speed', right? Revolutions per minute?
Far more sane, We cannot build this stuff today. Some we can, in the last 50 years or so. But these are not proof of aliens, it's possible we had an advanced society thousands of years ago, and blew it up. But we have the coincidence of Aliens claimed in the written lore of the day. Carved and painted into the stone.
That isn't the problem (a lost art is after all just that, lost). The problem is the conclusion you have leapt to, in order to explain it. It's patently absurd, when there are probably thousands of possible, very ordinary, explanations. In the meantime, I urge you to look into CURRENT hand cutting of marble and granite. If you haven't even bothered to do this, I'm less and less surprised by your outlandish conclusions. It's astonishing to see the precision these masons can achieve, and that's today .. long after we forgot how to do the really hard stuff (having machines to do it for us today).
Rate does not mean speed. I can't discuss this with you, because you have zero knowledge of machinery. We are not discussing RPM's, we have no idea what that was.. We are discussing depth, per revolution.