>From: Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: OT: Re: Wheels (Was: Clockwise without clocks)
>Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:52:56 +1200
> > to be fair, it takes a lot of wood to prepare the limestone needed to
> > build Mayan pyramids.
> >
> > (different type or quality of wood?)
>
>Fill me in on the details?
I'll do my best.
> How is limestone prepared? In what way? I
>thought it was anaturally-occuring stone, and all necessary was to
>hammer/carve it into shape.
from what I understand - from teh documentary I'd watched - wood was burned
under a pot where the limestone was held...when it was pastey (or
something), the limestone was placed atop and on the sides of the large
stones used for construction...and then another large stone was placed atop
that.
I think it was a glue of sorts. I think.
>
>
>To build the ramps needed to get the stone up to the top, that would
>require a
>fair amount of wood - and forethought.
oh yeah.
>
>Wesley Parish