Hi Everyone,
I'm not sure if the significance of the 'nubs' on the blocks at Sacsayhuamán and similar sites has been discussed in depth before and can't really look it up because I'm not sure what other people have called them so forgive me if this is repeating commonly known information.
The "nubs" I'm referring to are the protrusions towards the bottoms of many of the blocks. This picture shows them very clearly though they are present all over the place.![]()
It's obvious to most of us from the size of the blocks and tight but irregular joins that some kid of melting and reshaping took place. The only alternative explanation would be iteratively placing, removing, and reshaping the rocks over an over which is completely impractical. However these 'nubs' have remained unexplained and I believe they are the most significant element.
They are rounded oblong shapes often tilted slightly downwards and generally appearing at the bottom of the blocks. Not all blocks have them and larger blocks often have more than one. Where there are lots of them in one area, they tend to be of a similar geometry.
They could not be used to hang things from or support other structures, their shape is completely unsuitable. They also could not be a necessary part of e.g. moving the blocks into place, or every block would have them.
As they are outward bulges the only way to create them without melting would've been to start with a much larger rock and carve away everything except the apparently useless nubs. That would mean the creators had the opportuinity to make the blocks into regular shapes but deliberately chose to make their job harder by making the blocks inconsistently irregular shapes. That makes no sense. The existence of the nubs confirms that the rocks were melted.
I believe the nubs are not intentionally designed at all but are a sort of 'gate mark'; not a part of the design but a result of the construction method. I believe this is the only plausible hypothesis. These nubs look like the place where a tool of some sort was adhered and then pulled away, like a spoon from toffee, being more or less prominent depending on the consistency of the rock as it was removed. Like welding, heating rock to the ideal temperature for reshaping would be a delicate art.
If you look at Ollantaytambo you can see the smaller slivers of rock have equidistant 'nubs' as if they were melted to be used as a sort of mortar between the larger blocks.![]()
Now turn to look at the Pyramid of Menkaure at Giza, specifically at the 'unfinished outer casing'.
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The exact same "nubs" are on these blocks too. Evem if you doubt the melting hypoethis there can be no doubt that the same technology which was used to build the pyramids was also used to build many of the ancient peruvian sites.
The 'finished' section of the casing is equally intriguing as it implies the 'melted' appearance was not the final design but a stage in construction, and that creates a possibility that some of the more regular looking stoneworks we've assumed to be carved may also have been melted as part of construction.
If this has been discussed before pleasee direct me to it :)
Thanks!
I'm not sure if the significance of the 'nubs' on the blocks at Sacsayhuamán and similar sites has been discussed in depth before and can't really look it up because I'm not sure what other people have called them so forgive me if this is repeating commonly known information.
The "nubs" I'm referring to are the protrusions towards the bottoms of many of the blocks. This picture shows them very clearly though they are present all over the place.
It's obvious to most of us from the size of the blocks and tight but irregular joins that some kid of melting and reshaping took place. The only alternative explanation would be iteratively placing, removing, and reshaping the rocks over an over which is completely impractical. However these 'nubs' have remained unexplained and I believe they are the most significant element.
They are rounded oblong shapes often tilted slightly downwards and generally appearing at the bottom of the blocks. Not all blocks have them and larger blocks often have more than one. Where there are lots of them in one area, they tend to be of a similar geometry.
They could not be used to hang things from or support other structures, their shape is completely unsuitable. They also could not be a necessary part of e.g. moving the blocks into place, or every block would have them.
As they are outward bulges the only way to create them without melting would've been to start with a much larger rock and carve away everything except the apparently useless nubs. That would mean the creators had the opportuinity to make the blocks into regular shapes but deliberately chose to make their job harder by making the blocks inconsistently irregular shapes. That makes no sense. The existence of the nubs confirms that the rocks were melted.
I believe the nubs are not intentionally designed at all but are a sort of 'gate mark'; not a part of the design but a result of the construction method. I believe this is the only plausible hypothesis. These nubs look like the place where a tool of some sort was adhered and then pulled away, like a spoon from toffee, being more or less prominent depending on the consistency of the rock as it was removed. Like welding, heating rock to the ideal temperature for reshaping would be a delicate art.
If you look at Ollantaytambo you can see the smaller slivers of rock have equidistant 'nubs' as if they were melted to be used as a sort of mortar between the larger blocks.
Now turn to look at the Pyramid of Menkaure at Giza, specifically at the 'unfinished outer casing'.
The exact same "nubs" are on these blocks too. Evem if you doubt the melting hypoethis there can be no doubt that the same technology which was used to build the pyramids was also used to build many of the ancient peruvian sites.
The 'finished' section of the casing is equally intriguing as it implies the 'melted' appearance was not the final design but a stage in construction, and that creates a possibility that some of the more regular looking stoneworks we've assumed to be carved may also have been melted as part of construction.
If this has been discussed before pleasee direct me to it :)
Thanks!