James Wilson, left, and Rodger Kram, right, use tumplines to carry a log weighing more than 130 pounds in Boulder's Chautauqua Park. (Credit: Patrick Campbell/CU Boulder)
Posted on 04/24/2023 12:58:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
James Wilson, left, and Rodger Kram, right, use tumplines to carry a log weighing more than 130 pounds in Boulder's Chautauqua Park. (Credit: Patrick Campbell/CU Boulder)
Aliens.
Someone tell Joe Rogan about this.
I’m not a MD; but I have to believe that the spine and neck disks would take a huge beating, and that the later years of life would be one of agonizing pain.
Unless something else killed them off before reaching old age.
I spent 4 1/2 yrs in Boulder and know Chautauqua Park well.
A pickup would have worked better.
You are absolutely correct: Ancient peoples didn’t have Nike shoes - only Aliens could have done it!
Nephilim. The Old Ones
Cover-up
Most I’ve seen the word “tumpline” since last I read “Big Two-Hearted River.”
“I cut a 1-foot-long section of pine and weighed it on my bathroom scale,”
Good to see a professor with some common sense.
I imagine getting a third or fourth member to the team would also help in moving those logs. Although I guess the population of Chaco Canyon wasn’t like we see in the depictions of Egypt with thousands of slaves moving a stone block.
four to a log carrying it between the pairs seems more reasonable... how much grant funding can i expect?
Yeah. I think, at that time, worlwide, 40 was “ancient”.
That’s from movies and the Greeks, we still don’t know how they did most of the work. A few papyrus writings, but no hieroglyphs of the work.
In 1982 I subscribed to a magazine called Science 80. One of the best of their publications was about the ancient ones and their mechanism to predict the Spring and Fall Equinox and the Winter and Summer Solstice to the day, with shafts of light between stone slabs.
The magazine later became involved with leftist and loonie crap and it died. Long before it did, I stopped my subscription.
They were not aliens, but people who lived long ago were smart. They survived. They knew Nature.
Seems you hit the nail on the head.
I think this was more or less how the Indians and the Spanish Dominican friars in Oaxaca carried the organ pipes from the ships in Acapulco up the mountains in order to build the organs of those magnificent mission churches they built up in the mountains.
People knew how to do these things, and even when you read about the work of European-descent people going to the West in what is now the US, you are just stunned at their determination and stamina.
It's ironic, I suppose, that to get there I had to drive for many miles on dirt road, but at the destination there was a modern federal building museum.
Chaco itself was like a group of small cities spaced apart, with medieval quality stonework, of maybe three different kinds. A thousand years ago or so, it acted as the center of a major trade route and banking center, all the way from New England to South America.
A currency of the time was chips of turquoise, and they found a "vault" with tens of thousands of chips in it.
Thanks nickcarraway. I could have sworn this had been posted, but found nothin'.
technique inspired, in part, by sherpas in Nepal.
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So the Sherpas of Nepal were in the area back then?
I am confused.
Sure I guess it is possible, but far more likely that biological females did this kind of work
Assuming of course there were no wheels (unlikely), or large pack animals (also unlikely)
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