How do we explain earth's history.

[Vanyali]

The bolded part is the hard thing in the procedure.

It's actually not. Ropes and pulleys make it much, much easier, and those weren't unknown or hard to construct. You don't need metal, or even a spinning part; a rounded stone does just fine.

[PACOX]

You can get a lot of work done when there are no electronics to distract you.

[Vanyali]

I realize lots of people can do lots of small things over a long period of time, but lots of people cannot move 1k+ tonne stones even an inch off the ground with the technology we believed available in the time period.

Uh.

Go look up stonehenge. Those rocks? Preeetttyyy fucking big.

[Puupi]

Pretty much.

And OP doesn't have the facts straight:
The unfinished obelisk would have weighed 1,200 tons finished. http://laughingsquid.com/crane-lifti...lifting-crane/ shows a crane lifting 1,430 tons.

The heaviest stone found in Baalbek is at least 1650 tons.

[Fascinate]

The unfinished obelisk is unfinished and still connected to bedrock. It was never moved, so it's meaningless that we don't have a crane that can lift it - they never tried to move it either and may not have been able to.

As someone who holds a degree in Classics/archaeology, I'd suggest you stop looking for weird supernatural answers. It's embarrassing.

That is just the biggest stone i could find, if its still attached to bedrock thats one thing...but how about the other multitude of examples of stones nearly as big strewn across the planet in the same time period?

[Roose]

What else were they gonna do?

[Dezerte]

Ancient people weren't as dumb as you think, they were also motivated by the whip and/or were determined by spiritual reasons to see the project complete.

[Elegiac]

I realize lots of people can do lots of small things over a long period of time, but lots of people cannot move 1k+ tonne stones even an inch off the ground with the technology we believed available in the time period.

Your source for this is...what, exactly.

[DarkTZeratul]

I realize lots of people can do lots of small things over a long period of time, but lots of people cannot move 1k+ tonne stones even an inch off the ground with the technology we believed available in the time period.

I already linked a video of a single dude moving 1k+ ton stones by himself with nothing more than "ropes and logs."

[Garnier Fructis]

[Dug]

That is just the biggest stone i could find, if its still attached to bedrock thats one thing...but how about the other multitude of examples of stones nearly as big strewn across the planet in the same time period?

Well it's not like these things were built in a weekend. They took years, even decades to complete. Even if they only moved them inches an hour that's a whole lot of time and a whole lot of people working year round to get the job finished.

And the year round bit is the important aspect. Slave labor. No breaks and if they die throw em in a ditch and steal someone else's child to work on it.

[Vanyali]

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I hate that meme.

The evidence points to the labor working on the pyramids being *very* skilled rather than a horde of unwashed masses.

[Fascinate]

Your source for this is...what, exactly.

I guess common sense? Do you realize our current view of what kind of people we were back in those days? Not much off hunter/gatherer status, but more importantly no tools have been found at all if you are suggesting we did all this stuff by hand.

[Deleted]

Math is part of human civilization ever since we started building walls to protect cities and writing down taxes payments.

[Vanyali]

I guess common sense? Do you realize our current view of what kind of people we were back in those days? Not much off hunter/gatherer status, but more importantly no tools have been found at all if you are suggesting we did all this stuff by hand.

Stop pulling shit from your ass and smearing it into letters.

We have a lot of tools showing how things were done. More than that, we have people that wrote techniques down in many cases.

[DarkTZeratul]

I guess common sense? Do you realize our current view of what kind of people we were back in those days? Not much off hunter/gatherer status, but more importantly no tools have been found at all if you are suggesting we did all this stuff by hand.

Then your view of what people were back in those days is woefully divorced from the reality that any competent historian would tell you about.

[Elegiac]

I guess common sense? Do you realize our current view of what kind of people we were back in those days? Not much off hunter/gatherer status, but more importantly no tools have been found at all if you are suggesting we did all this stuff by hand.

Aside from the huge number of copper chisels in Egypt, for instance.

[Fascinate]

Ancient people weren't as dumb as you think, they were also motivated by the whip and/or were determined by spiritual reasons to see the project complete.

That's wonderful but it still does not explain how these unimaginably heavy stones were moved.

[Dug]

I guess common sense? Do you realize our current view of what kind of people we were back in those days? Not much off hunter/gatherer status, but more importantly no tools have been found at all if you are suggesting we did all this stuff by hand.

So propose an alternative then. You say it wasn't aliens to avoid conspiracy theory infraction but you're not putting forward any ideas.

[DarkTZeratul]

That's wonderful but it still does not explain how these unimaginably heavy stones were moved.