Ben van Kerkwyk
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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There are just endless 90-degree turns, perfectly polished surfaces like saw marks, cut marks.
Do you have some images of this?
Yeah, I have a Tiwanaku directory there, Jamie.
And it's quite well preserved because it was buried in mud.
It's slowly been excavated.
And there is a lot of evidence that suggests this place is at least 10,000 to 12,000 years old, again, using...
Yeah, endless like this sort of andesite work.
See, there's a left turn arrow for some reason.
But it's this playful nature.
The H blocks are famous at this place, but they just have these endless little insets and stuff like this.
This is one of my favorite blocks to show people.
You're looking down on top, so the ground's down.
So I'm looking down this thin channel that's been cut into this block, and it has all of these little drill holes in it.
And these are like tiny little drill holes and this channel's about this wide and it's cut into this block.
You have several blocks with features like this.
Like it's clearly something's been attached to this.
Like it's, how do you cut this in stone?