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Duck! · 10-19-2002, 01:45 PM

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Originally posted by Anti-Creedance Front:
<strong>The stone circles were built by the Celts. This is the only thing I will believe even if someone tells me it's false. Say otherwise and ah'll poke ye in th' bits with meh shillelagh!</strong>

I'm pretty sure the stone circle megaliths in north western Europe are pre-Celtic.

Duck!

Vorkosigan · 10-20-2002, 03:58 AM

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Originally posted by marduck:
<strong>I for one would love to know how they built those various temples or whatever they are way up in the Andes Mountains. Some of the walls of those buildings are right up to the edge of rather steep cliffs. Very impressive work of cutting and fitting 60 ton stones and putting them together in jigsaw puzzel style, now that's just showing off.</strong>

Red Jean-louis Protzen's work on the Inca fortress-quarry complex at Ollantaytambo. It is aimed at explaining this very question. The methods are almost entirely known.

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