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Perhaps ancients had a similar ratio of high quality and mostly low quality. It’s just that the only pieces that survived are the very large high quality rocks,
by ljlolel 4y ago
Perhaps ancients had a similar ratio of high quality and mostly low quality. It’s just that the only pieces that survived are the very large high quality rocks, all of their quick cheap stuff broke up quickly.
- mitthrowaway2 4y agoIt's not the lack of ancient low-quality work that surprises, but the absence of more recent high-quality work.
- dr-detroit 4y ago
- ncmncm 4y agoExactly. If they could still do high-quality work: mirror-smooth surfaced, extra-hard diorite, carved with exact bilateral symmetry, you would expect to find some of it done for highest-status people, even if it were no longer squandered on huge monuments.