ColonelAllan (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

look how thin it gets alongside the eyesockets, just behind the browbones...Treadle tools?? What.

ColonelAllan (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Still, although impressive I can't imagine that tools similar to what the chinese used to carve jade would be anything like what would have been used to fashion the skull.

ColonelAllan (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Those walls at Sachsayhuaman and Tiahuanaco show accurate mathematics and knowledge of angles in order to get all the blocks to fit flushly together. They almost look too large and flawless to have been quarried anywhere. Sachsayhuaman for instance. You should look at the surrounding wall. Almost like it's been cut from a quarry with the pre-planned measurements to make up the wall. A quarry of solid pure veinless, crackless stone by the way, hahah I have done my research. No need to get arsy.

ColonelAllan (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Yeah my point is; that the people of the ancient world were capable of feats and knowledge that surpassed ours. I don't believe that we have come so far in tech that we have discovered everything that everyone once knew and more.

OneInsignificant (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

It is possible that the people of the ancient world were capable of feats and knowledge that far surpassed ours. The general modern concensus would be they were primitives. Id like to see many of you survive in theyre times. Did you have a Point. self appointed Colonel Sir? The chinese used treadle tools to carve Jade. Look it up.

ColonelAllan (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Sorry that's 'Microscopic'...How silly of me.

ColonelAllan (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Even microscoping ones? The tool marks I'm talking about are signs of 'machining' or use of wheel-like instruments (disk grinders, drills, sanders) of which there aren't any...So someone must have spent a while with a file and some sandpaper. Maybe a chiesel or two. Manually chipping and filing this thing from a peice of crystal. From generation to generation. All in all, it must have took several hundred years to finish...My arse! My arse it did!

ColonelAllan (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

And it is now? Still sounds like quite a specified job for any modern equipment. It would take machines just for the job. It's a very accurate piece of work none the less. I don't think Computer Aided Design would help much. Technology at the time the skull was publicly shown couldn't possibly have been capable of making it. The best they can come up with is that someone must have spent hundreds of years filing away at it, then polishing it, so flawlessly as to not leave a tool mark, anywhere?

OneInsignificant (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Even with modern tools it would be near impossible to make. Lapidary is a hobby of mine. laser tech at the time of the video was not capable of this.

scata99 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

You dont get what Im saying. They said she must have lied because of how advanced the skull was it couldnt have been made at the time of her discovery or before by any tools that europeans or indiginous peoples had at the time or before that. Basically its supporting the theory of it coming from an ancient civilization, long before mayans, or aliens. But the scientists wont accept those theories, so they conclude she must have lied.