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So your saying one of the worlds best Egyptologists who also had archeological and engineering background enaged in sloppy work. Have you even read his papers on this. He has extensive and detailed observations and measurements.No .. it doesn't.
The GPT-4o analysis, taken from the image of original sample, demonstrates the large differences in the resulting core pattern between our modern way of drilling cores and manual methods. The pattern falls well into the category of using imprecise mechanical apparatus/abrasion techniques.
Petrie and Dunn's envisioning what they perceived as being a spiral pattern, is more likely caused by their over-active imaginations, rather than what is evidenced. Their measurement method was sloppy....
In fact he had to check and recheck his findings as it provoked such a reaction to prove his position. But no one disputed his observations and measurements. It was the implications of ancient advanced tech that scientists at the time objected to.
I suggest if we are to be fair about looking at all the evidence then we start with Petries as he was the first and unlike most other objectors spent 7 years in direct observation of not just core 7 but all the cores. Which puts him in a much better position that any critic.
Scientific excavation methods
Flinders Petrie's painstaking recording and study of artefacts set new standards in archaeology. He wrote: "I believe the true line of research lies in the noting and comparison of the smallest details."Well because its usually the other way around. We were primitive cavemen, then hunter gatherers, then gradually increased in skill and knowledge until today. Thats why we call certain artifacts like say the Antikythera mechanism an out of place artifact. Thats why some of these ancient works are regarded as out of place because they don't fit what the evidence was showing. Like Gobekli Tepe.What makes that 'strange'?
I have no disagreement with this. But I will say with your example of the hand drills when you were a kid compared to todays ones. The out of place tech and knowledge we see early in the time line would be like finding todays drill back then and then finding the old hand drill later. So its the other way around and thats why this is so amazing and interesting I think.I mean, we don't see enormous pyramids being built out of huge stone blocks thesedays, or clocks made from wood, or say the mechancal hand-drills I gew up with as a kid being used in constructions, now do we?
Skills rapidly become archaic (and extinct) whenever the time/effort required to perfect them exceeds the time/effort to achieve similar end results using more modern methods and techniques. This is a consistent phenomenon which accompanies human behaviour throughout history.
I disagree with the traditional time line. I don't think it followed a linear pattern nor was based on any particular behaviour or thinking. Like the traditional one that says cultivation came first which brought people together and out of this came socialisation, culture and religion.Also the Stone Age went for an extremely long time in comparison with the timespan of metallic mechanization. There was plenty of time for Stone Agers to perfect stone-working to the degree we see in megalithic works. (Not to mention the pressures those folk were under to survive nature (and eachother).
I think religion or culture was also a motivation for why people came together and it is out of this came the need for organisation such as agriculture. So the level of skill and knowledge was not linear in that agriculture came first. People were much more skilled and knowledgable well before agriculture.
Actually the evidence shows that the only motivation was belief and more about culture. Their worldview was so steeped in belief of other worldly aspects that they were willing to build these megaliths and precision works to their gods or spirits or whatever it was they thought was beyond their physical world.Those were obviously huge motivators for them to go to the extremes for which they then left evidence behind, demonstrating their struggles against those pressures).
Astrology plays a big part as well and they seem to be well versed in the star and planet movements. But this was attached to their beliefs. So it may have been like some paganistic belief about nature and animals being gods or spirits. But its the skill and knowledge in knowing this so early on well before the development of agriculture.
Just like its an unconvincing arguement that there was not alternative tools or mechanisms use which better fits the evidence. They could have all been lost to time, melted down or destroyed before the people came along who found them.Meh .. if copper was useful and valuable, it could've easily been melted down and used for other things ..
Unconvincing argument.
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