Inside the lines, and I didn't say it....
The fact the soil inside the lines to several times the density outside the line decries it.
How would you suggest it got compacted? Earth rollers? Perhaps giant compasses compacted it as they drew the circles and arcs?
And "they aren't wide enough to be processionals"? Most of them are wider than the tile mazes in medieval churches, plenty wide enough to be a procession way.
There is one even more telling piece of data, where the swept ways open up into wider spaces, the compaction is only near the edges. The procession (dancers? marchers? will we ever know?) worshipers kept close to the boundaries to preserve the pattern for their gods. I didn't dream this whole thing up. There have been several illuminating articles in World Archaeology magazine. There is a particularly good piece in the most recent issue.
As for praying being a waste, I say nay-nay.
The more precious a resource the more mandatory divine intervention is. If you only get 6"
of rain a year, you MUST get those 6".
> "Let me give you a hint, and a warning my friend: even the minutest dose of geometry may
> prove lethal to a fan spoiled by the dramatic accounts of the past
> even the minutest dose of geometry may prove lethal to a fan spoiled by the dramatic
> accounts of the past - Nazca as a landing ground for spaceships, Atlantis sinking and
> boats escaping to Egypt, the Earth crust sliding dramatically, nuclear weapons exploding
> over India, time-travel by Nostradamus, druids dancing at Stonehenge - why would you
> pore over Geometry, and give yourself a headache?"
But I believe in none of that garbage, nor can you link to any post I ever stated support of any of it. Please link to a SINGLE post I've ever made, or retract such a smokescreen.
I am discussing a single subject (Nazca Lines) and the impact of soil compaction likely proving worship processions, and YOU discharge an entire blunderbuss of unassociated gibberish to dissemble rather than discuss the impact of the data.
I am a licensed engineer by trade. Geometry, Algebra, even some serious calc doesn't give me any fears, I use it all frequently.
But taking what I do know and transposing it, forcing it onto builders of 45 centuries ago because some pretty pictures fit... THAT scares me.
First, I would demand to see some separate evidence they knew and used the math.
Do you find it interesting that a written record of math/builders exercise from almost a millennium later than the GP is far more basic than you propose they knew and used 2,500bce. (The Rhind Papyrus).
Like others, have you dismissed this as proving "a secret knowledge that was kept secret".
Jammer
