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Analysis of zircon crystals

Sanctuary May 16, 2011 08:26:16

Replying to nigelswift

nigelswift wrote:

"hard and unrealistic work hauling not one stone but many 240 miles"

Maybe not 240 but 3 in total (and the rest by water)?

Hauling 4 tonners 3 miles doesn't sound unrealistic compared with 40 tonners 20 miles!

I'll go with the 3 miles overland no problem but the water travel experiments don't seem to have always gone too well over the years have they?

nigelswift May 16, 2011 08:43:53

Replying to Sanctuary

Sanctuary wrote:

I'll go with the 3 miles overland no problem but the water travel experiments don't seem to have always gone too well over the years have they?

Nor did the hauling. But isn't that evidence of inadequate experiments rather than evidence it couldn't be done (especially after a couple of hundred years of practice maybe)? I bet the ancient people would have picked a lot of holes in our re-enactments - and quite possibly have sniggered. (Rather like Stonelifter would if he saw my attempt at building a garden wall).