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They don't look like pickaxe marks at all to me. They aren't as uniform or straight, they aren't all going in the same direction and they don't have uniform dep

• pvaldes 8y ago
  The marks in the first photo are done by a stone chisel (or something similar), not the kind of marks that a pick axe would make normally. Very different tools with different purposes. But I see where you are going. https://per-storemyr.net/2013/01/22/stone-extraction-with-pickaxes-in-ancient-egypt-fact-or-fiction/ https://per-storemyr.net/2013/01/22/stone-extraction-with-pi... The fact that a pick axe can be used like a chisel does not mean that it couldn't produce other types of marks also.