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a reply to: Hanslune
Well ere did the Inca build for the Spanish in the old large stone fashion?
originally posted by: Hanslune
originally posted by: Sparta
a reply to: Hanslune
God damn I would loved to have seen that model.
What we saying here? There are obvious sites where there seem to have 2 totally different styles to construction, to the picture James posted last with the smaller rocks to one side and the lovely larger blocks to the other. Is it not possible that the Incan built both, one just collapsed due to earthquakes or whatever, and they didn't have the same stone masons they used to, so built it the quickest, most effective way they could?
I remember reading once that when the Spanish asked the Inca people how they built some of their monuments and their reply was something along the lines of "we didn't, the people before us did" I would love to know if anyone knows if that statement is authentic.
Yeah it would have been an interesting thing to see kinda of a 3D version of the Madaba map
Since James posted an image taken out of context and absolutely refuses to identify where it comes from (if he even knows) we cannot determine who did what when. The two larger blocks are probably Inca but the looser stones around them could be later Inca or post Spanish construction. As note earlier one of the styles the Inca used was to use larger stones for foundations then use smaller atop them especially if built on a slope.
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originally posted by: JamesTB
It's Hatunrumiyoc Street Cucco. Here's what it look like today -.
As you can see the Inca wall has now gone revealing an older more technically advanced wall underneath.
So when exactly did the Inca build this more advanced wall?
originally posted by: tadaman
a reply to: Hanslune
There are structures which the inca claim to be from the former age. They claim certain structures are theirs. Others they either say the gods built them or their ancestors did from the last age of crewtion.
Usually the old structures are those that are well carved out of solid stone. The more modern ones are formed by smaller stones arranged into a puzzle structure.
originally posted by: tadaman
a reply to: Hanslune
Yes. There were countless ones before the last prehispanic cultures.
Everyone thinks the epitome of central and south American cultures were the aztec and inca. Thats like saying the dark ages were more important than Rome or Greace to European cultures.
There is an inca word for past ages structures thst the former creation built and another word for more modern age strutures they built. I am on my phone at the moment and a little busy to search for it. I dont remember. A simple google search should provide the answers if anyone is really interested.
Kurt Schildmann (Born March 12, 1909, Died April 25, 2005, age 96) is one of the least known but among the best world linguists, etymologists, and translators. He began world traveling early in his life as a teen of 17 under the guidance of older brother Heinrich, to the middle East, India, Thailand, China, Burma and finally reaching Korea after several years. He absorbed as much of the culture and language as a bright-minded youth could. [The MES journal to be published in February of this year has his diary entries of this five-year world trip]. Returning home he studied in France, Spain and then three years in Italy.
His academic life was interrupted when the Wehrmacht desired his presence in World War II on the eastern front where he was wounded and then on the western front where in 1944 he became an American POW. Repatriated, he became an interpreter with the British occupational forces in Germany. By this time he was married and with a young son, Kurt, Jr., who accidentally drowned in Turkey in 1987.
In the 1950s he began a life career as an interpreter and translator for the new German federal government, retiring in 1974. During these years he founded in 1956 the Society of German Linguists, joined the journal 'Synesis' and becoming a lectorate and co-editor, and continued to travel, usually in his own house boat on the major rivers of Europe, the Mediterranean and indeed the planet, studying cultures and languages, especially the origin and relationship to other languages...
In an absurd case reminiscent of Nikola Tesla receiving the Edison Award, government cover-up agent Barry Fell, who himself declared the Illinois artifacts as fakes based on his work, was supported by the MES while Schildmann's aforementioned diary entries were never published. In fact, the MES even managed to publish multiple misspellings of Schildmann's name (first as 'Shildmann' and subsequently 'Schildman'). Professor Schildmann's scholarly excellence and decisive offerings in the field of Paleolithic epigraphy are reasserted here, applying his comprehensive lexicon and cipher key to dozens of Paleo-Sanskrit texts: