Here’s an indian temple carved with hand tools in harder stone than the sandstone of the statues here. Details of these statues were also done with clay.
Ppl have known how to carve stone for quite a long time. And from far away it might look very precise, but likely up close its not. That carving is very large.
They were carved in around 600 ce by a Buddhist ruling class in Afghanistan. There are other excellent contemporary examples of this type of statuary carving. Its also 50m high. The tolerances are not as tight as you are suggesting.
Before they were tragically destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001.
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Usually when people suggest something couldn’t be made without advanced technology they choose much older examples. I think the usual line people push is that there was an advanced civilization 12ish thousand years ago that civilized barbarian humans and taught them how to do things. This statue is much younger not that it isn’t ancient, just not as ancient as something like the colosseum which I don’t see people arguing required advanced ancient tech for some reason…
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Machining precision can be like tolerances of +/-0.003” or smaller. If you measured the variations between similar features here, like the two eyes, for example, they probably differ by several inches at least or 10,000 times greater “tolerances”.
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Here’s an indian temple carved with hand tools in harder stone than the sandstone of the statues here. Details of these statues were also done with clay.
> https://i.imgur.com/KdZfixi.jpeg
> https://i.imgur.com/Rp8WBVH.jpeg
> https://www.himalayanacademy.com/iraivan-temple/
Ppl have known how to carve stone for quite a long time. And from far away it might look very precise, but likely up close its not. That carving is very large.
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Yes.
They were carved in around 600 ce by a Buddhist ruling class in Afghanistan. There are other excellent contemporary examples of this type of statuary carving. Its also 50m high. The tolerances are not as tight as you are suggesting.
Before they were tragically destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001.
Usually when people suggest something couldn’t be made without advanced technology they choose much older examples. I think the usual line people push is that there was an advanced civilization 12ish thousand years ago that civilized barbarian humans and taught them how to do things. This statue is much younger not that it isn’t ancient, just not as ancient as something like the colosseum which I don’t see people arguing required advanced ancient tech for some reason…
Machining precision can be like tolerances of +/-0.003” or smaller. If you measured the variations between similar features here, like the two eyes, for example, they probably differ by several inches at least or 10,000 times greater “tolerances”.