cladking Wrote:
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> Warwick L Nixon Wrote:
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> > First he says that to get the work doen
> without
> > Geyser power one would have to work at night.
>
>
> No. I didn't.
>
> > He
> > 'reasoned' that this was unlikely due to them
> not
> > having adequate artifical lighting
> technology.
>
> No. I did not.
>
> I said that they'd need hundreds of torches and
> many people to maintain and fuel them. There no
> evidence for such an industry.
>
> > When it was pointed out that they must have
> had
> > adequate artificial lighting due to the
> amount of
> > work they di underground..he asks if we
> have
> > imagined them building ramps underground.
> Totally
> > ignoring the original point concering
> lighting.
>
> Go back and read it again.
>
> > It really doesn't matter where one posts a
> > responce to Cladking. He'll avoid answering
> > regardless.
>
> No, I don't. I'm only a little less likely to
> respond to insulting and inflammatory posts but
> anytime someone brings up a point not previously
> discussed it will get an answer.
>
>
>
>
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specifically....
"It's not impossible they worked around the clock but remember they would have to do everything in the dark that they did in the light. That means making mortar and cutting stones as well as quarrying and everything else. This would require many hundred of torches and the fuel to keep them running. Torch light is not equivalent to sunlight and craftsmen would have to learn how to do their jobs under these conditions.
It's unlikely they worked at night. There's nothing in the PT suggestive of it nor in the culture. There was no "Overseer of Torch Makers" or anything suggestive. There is a device called the fire-pan which was a light source according to Sethe. There are implications that when this burned the builders reported to work. "
and out of that ....
"It's unlikely they worked at night. There's nothing in the PT suggestive of it nor in the culture"
my first point that you deny stemmed from the obvious inference that the obstacles of having to work at night ,that the time consuming emplyment of ramping would demand, would be overcome by employing a less labour intensive Geyser powered motive system
the second poiny which you deny was your contention that they did NOT have a artificial lghting production capability
Nothing inflammatory or insulting.
It's your arguments that do not hold up.
Warwick
" I have always found that the main obstacle to free
association on these boards is the broad
misconception that what we do not know is more
significant than what we do know."
Warwick L Nixon, March 8, 2019