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How does carving cause fossils to come back into the stone?
So you are saying they carefully chipped out individual fossils and added them to 'mix'? Why only fossils and not gravel?
Can you cite that last claim I have not seen it before
will2learn
I am just saying they added big chunks of stone of the same stone (much like one adds gravel). These chunks retained the fossils.
There are convoluted ways of explaining the evidence here, but the simplest is they formed those stones from slag. the researcher describes virtually all the properties of slag stone without connecting to the refining process. You might be interested in the removal of the tiny fossils.
No I've never seen pyramid core stones that had inclusions like that and certainly not chunks
Thanks for the link - one comment on the website it doesn't display properly in either IE7 or Firefox which makes it hard to read. You may wish to look at changing it so the text will display without having to scroll I will reply later in detail. I am sending you a PM with a suggestion
Edited to add: Have you read this book? A Culture of Stone: Inka Perspectives on Rock?
Hanslune
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You really should read that book and when you do you will know what the Inca meant by Sayk'usha and Kanninqakuchini - also guess what they called slag concrete?
will2learn
Hanslune
reply to post by will2learn
You really should read that book and when you do you will know what the Inca meant by Sayk'usha and Kanninqakuchini - also guess what they called slag concrete?
I am curious??
will
will2learn
Can you point to an apparently soft stone that has fossils in it?
They had many many names for all kinds of different stone types, usage, method of moving, methods to quarry them, a whole technical 'jargon' built up over centuries, oddly no name for slag concrete or any mention of it in their oral and later written histories.
The only way to verify this is to duplicate it......