Mike Collins
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Jun
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But I think we figured out what the cart ruts are as opposed to wheels, wagon wheels. But there is, in my opinion, a direct connection with cart ruts and quarries. And I think the cart ruts, and we're going to have to think of a different name for that because if we're able to, I just don't even like saying cart ruts anymore because I don't think that there were any kind of carts being used.
No wheels and nothing like that, right? But yeah, I believe that there's a direct connection and correlation between the cart ruts and finding quarries nearby or exactly there in that location.
um malt is a great example of that and even in austin um there's there was supposedly an old quarry uh right near where those cart ruts are found well i mean wow because like the time period where they would they would have been used
Yeah. I think that may be some of the most frustrating parts of the archaeological community is this apparent unwillingness to look at just common sense things. there are so many connecting pieces around the world.
Like I've shared before, like from these and, and the cart rats being another one of them, but everything from the type of, you know, evidence left behind in construction from the markings and, and, I mean, to the scope and scale of the constructions, design, again, symbology, all sorts of stuff.
So yeah, you know, tying the cart ruts together around the world and showing through data and evidence that, Not just that they weren't made from cart ruts, but hopefully what we're trying to do is show that me and my buddy Sean, and I want to give a shout out to him because he's the one. By the way, I'm not doing any of the math on this. I went and documented and scanned them.
And my buddy Sean's doing all the heavy lifting there when it comes to breaking down the data. But, you know, hopefully what we're able to show is not just show that these aren't... Especially in North America, it's not just show that they weren't made by wagon wheels, but show that they were made by specifically something else and for what. So that's what we're hoping to do.
And I feel like we're really... really on the um on the edge of of having that answer we have some answers and the answer we we i think we're we know that they weren't made by wagon wheels and then what we're what we're
know formulating now is the working theory of what they were that did create that and so i'm excited i'll be excited to share that but it definitely that would open up a whole realm of possibilities in terms of understanding north specifically north america because there's cart routes everywhere in north america they're all there's tons of sites around north america with cart routes um but but they don't get any attention because they're explained away as
Wagon roads, you know, made by wagon wheels and settlers crossing over and mud and drying mud. And that's the story, you know. Everything has a natural explanation here in America, you know. But yeah.
did the indentations get made with hammers and chisels to make these rails for the rock to move on top of you know chicken or an egg kind of a question i guess yeah that's a good question um man i hate i hate to do that i'm gonna skip that yeah i think we we almost have that figured out what i will say is i think um i hate skipping a question like that it's so good um let me say this i the
you especially let's take malta for example you have a lot of examples of where it's clear that the stone was being quarried out of the center of those cart ruts right because it's still left there in that state so there are there are sites in malta where it's clear that they were quarrying the stone between the cart ruts and um and so uh you know But then I think it was multi-purpose.
It was used to facilitate the movement of the, not just between the cart ruts, but all around it. But they were coring out in between the cart ruts as well. I mean, there's places in Malta where there's no... you know, it's impossible that it was made by a cart rut because it goes down so deep in areas and the left stone in between them is so high.
It's just, it's impossible that that was made by a cart rut. And I think those are areas where the center between them just hadn't fully been quarried out yet.
So as we're looking here, there's examples of this all over Sacsayhuaman. What you'll notice is those square spots, right? What you'll also notice there at Sacsayhuaman, which we don't have a great shot of here, But do you remember walking Sacsayhuaman, there being the indentations in the stones that are kind of out of place?
Like the whole stone is shaped and curved like you were just describing, and then at the bottom of it or in the middle of it, there'd be like a pressed in area. Yeah. When you get really close into the, and it was great that it just rained too, because a lot of this really stood out, which can be hard to see sometimes.
But a lot of what the patterning, which is even in finer detail that's hard to see in these pictures, is there's almost like, looks like a mesh patterning over it.
And there's going to be, I know that the geopolymer idea is not super popular with a lot of people in the crowd, but if there was ever a place for the argument for geopolymer, in my opinion, Sachse Wumann is a great example to explore that idea. The reason being is the way, the idea,
The way that these stones are shaped and they look has a feel of that roundedness and different stuff of being poured. Now, if you had some kind of burlap sacking or something to contain, if it was concrete and was poured, kind of like a concrete bag, and it was all wrapped, it would leave these line marks, which you find on the stones there.
Almost like there was like a pressed in indentation of like patterning, like a sackclothing, right? Which you'll see on the stone there. And then you have areas where these squares are and stuff like that. Now, some of the areas that I was talking about where you had those indentations, what they appear to be to me, it's almost like, imagine yourself, there's a great shot right there.
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