> The Inca rather famously used long extended ramps
> to haul stones by nothing but manpower, of course
> in the Andes mountains these are called roads.
> The Spanish recorded them doing it, and recorded
> one of the massive stones getting away from them
> and killing quite a number of natives in the
> process. They took care of their dead and then
> hauled the stone up again.

I recall that story... was it Hancock who tried to use it as evidence why the Inca couldn't have build the structures in there?

Do you happen to have a citation handy for this and for something about the ramps/roads?




Regards,
Tommi

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