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I don't see how pyramids or other structures could be used for communication.
by daliusd 12y ago
I don't see how pyramids or other structures could be used for communication.
- Turing_Machine 12y agoI think he's suggesting that the idea of building pyramids spread through some form of communication, not that the pyramids themselves were used for communication. I don't agree with that, myself -- a pyramid is a fairly simple shape, and could easily have occurred to different groups of people.
- givan 12y agoIt's not only the shape but also the construction technique, very large stones cut with high precision in both egypt or south america http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumapunku http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumapunku
- ceejayoz 12y agoIf the technique can be thought up once, it can likely be thought up more than once. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery
- baddox 12y agoI don't share givan's belief, but I would note that this depends heavily on the complexity of the idea. If, for instance, manuscripts with identical detailed stories were found in two distant civilizations from the same time period, I would consider that evidence that the civilizations had interacted.
- smoe 12y agoPumapunku was built thousands of years after the pyramids in egypt. Plenty of time for banging rocks together to determine which one is the harder and figuring out that using flat stones and sand is great for polishing.
- daliusd 12y agoWe don't know actually what he is suggesting while your idea is correct one most probably (I tried to be funny actually:)). As well I agree about pyramids being simple. Another problem with communication theory is that Mayans used different counting system.
- Alex25 12y agoThat`s amazing, but i can`t imagine how it possible could be, maybe i just don`t have enough information to build such a construction in my head.
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