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Rodders wrote:
"What really gets me thinking is, if all three pyramids were planned at the same time, what was the great need to choose this arrangement. Was the triangle such a powerful factor that it would decide matters for generations to come? Our Churches have had an E-W factor in their construction for generations now, and an alien coming to have a look could well be puzzled as to
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> Avebury? It isn't really a circle, now, is it?
> It's kind of circular, but hardly perfect.
There is evidence of two true circles within the area enclosed by the outer 'circle' of stones.
The outer stones at Avebury are laid out in a series of arcs with common radii. To draw 3 of these
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Ancient History
BrettMartin Wrote:
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> If you had done a post like Rick Baude, and then
> posted your numbers, We may all be with you with
> your Original post.
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> Rick's suggested statistical experiment, has it's
> constants, and a good variable, that of basically
> being nearer to the equator. The suggested data
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Ancient History
It is too expansive to be posted here. It will be published next year.
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Ancient History
Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> OTOH Imagine if you plotted every city on the
> globe using a GIS system starting with the north
> pole at 0 degrees long. and lat. and moved down in
> one degree increments plotting population density
> vs. temp. until you hit the south pole. This is
> my prediction the graph well follow a rough
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Take a deep breath and try again. Read your own post. It makes absolutely no sense.
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Jammer Wrote:
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> 360 degrees horizontal * 360 degrees vertical=
> 129,600 possible 1 degree match ups.
Oh dear. This is not true. If you think for a minute, the 'vertical' as you have it is 180 degrees, but the point I imagine you are attempting to make is not relevant in any event.
My point about Avebury&
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In fact a Khmer
> story referring to the founding of Angkor refers
> to a Khmer king who founded the site because he
> liked the view!?
Phnom Bakheng may have been the original focus for the monuments at Angkor and the view from this summit is indeed very unusual. Looking east the two summits in the mid distance (Phnom Bok and Phnom Dei) dominate the landscape overlooking the
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Ancient History
If each culture traditionally picked six apples per person,and cut one into eight parts and another into five, would that change the perspective?
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Ancient History
Thanks for your thoughts on this.
The point is about the location of the 1,000 or more massive stone temples, pyramids and smaller shrines at Angkor. (In both volume and weight, these surely far exceed the volume and weight the total of timber structures?) If these stone structures were to be more easily built they should have been located, closer to the source material, at the base of the
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> Certainly at Stonehenge the sky would have been
> visible from any location, including the mountains
> the stone was quarried from. Therefore the
> specific location was chosen in spite of the
> workload involved.
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> You say this proves diffusion; I say it does no
> such thing.
I did not say this if you read what I said.
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> You
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Differences in common.
The debate about diffusion is cut and dried for some people, both for and against the idea. There are similarities and dissimilarities between cultures either of which can support the antagonist or the protagonist; each striving for the same goal; the truth.
The same enigmatic L shaped corners found at monuments on three continents may have a value of one in a debate wit
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Tiahuanaco, Teotihuacán and the majority of substantial Egyptian Pyramids can be added to the list. The data is not bound by continental divides…nor was RA 2 for that matter.
I suspected someone might infer the view you express, but not so directly.
It is possible in statistics to show a probability level that removes sufficient doubt concerning a hypothesis such that the hypothesis is recogni
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Ancient History
Yes, I can still remember my first sand castle.
Thanks
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No, I don’t get it either. I have no idea. Nevertheless it has become possible to anticipate certain monument characteristics, and the probability of these characteristics can be measured. The method is standard, the results arrive as probability. The same unlikely characteristics repeat from site to site thereby reducing the probability of chance to a low quantity. (Atlantis is not my topic.)
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Probabilities cannot be “bent” in the context we are talking about. The probability is a number.
“The value of the probability level at which we accept the hypothesis we are examining is a matter which depends on circumstance and in fact on the individual or group of individuals concerned.”
A. Thom gives the following example leading to the above statement.
We suspect 3 dice are loaded.
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Ancient History
Yes, dovetailing may come naturally to the woodworker, but if 90% of the boxes made with this technique were of the same dimensions (for example) it might seem obvious that the carpenters communicated.
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I am talking about probability levels. These are simple numbers, 1%, 5% etc. There is no Hocus Pocus because levels are demonstrable as fact.
“The value of the probability level at which we accept the hypothesis we are examining is a matter which depends on circumstance and in fact on the individual or group of individuals concerned.”
A. Thom gives the following example leading to the above
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I’m having increasing trouble trying to maintain the non-diffusion viewpoint. I’ve been gathering data on the largest mounds and pyramids around the world and am getting close to publishing statistically significant data.
The data is based on random distributions which gives “chance” a defined probability. The data is finding firmly in favour of diffusion.
The probability of random events cre
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Thank you for the interest, I’ll try and answer the questions from the preceding posts.
"Can they be seen from each other?"
Not in daylight, but with a lantern hoisted on a pole it may be possible at night, I’m not sure.
"So what is the tolerance on "same'?"
The line is measured tangential to the base of both monuments. Tangential alignments were not unu
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Thank you Hermione, it “must be coincidental” as you say. I’m left wondering if this applies to all Neolithic cardinal alignments, or does it depend on the distances involved? The two mounds are about 8.3 kilometers apart, but there is a north-south alignment at Brodgar spanning about one hundred meters, should this also be considered coincidental? In other words, among UK Neolithic monuments, is
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Hi, I'm new to this forum. I'm trying to find out if Silbury Hill and Marlborough Mound were located on the same line of latitude with intent, or is the alignment accidental.Does anyone know, or have a view on this?
Thanks
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