MEGALITHIC STONES at YANGSHAN QUARRY - CHINA

[KVW]

Howdy all. this is new to me:
MEGALITHIC STONES at YANGSHAN QUARRY - CHINA

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Howdy!

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I like megalithic ancient structures too, but in the future provide more commentary in your OP.  Something beyond that which can be gleaned from the title. 

Please and thank you.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Watching the video, this quarry is pretty cool actually..

They started carving a megalithic stone and then realized they couldnt move it, so they left it unfinished.  I like that you can see the stone age methods used it the tool striations left in progress. 

It's like Egypt's unfinihed obelisk. Where you can see the tedious methods our ancient counterparts used.  

I like how with ancient cultures there is a nearly universal fascination with quarrying and moving gigantic stones. 

In this case these ancient builders realized that 31,500 metric tons was insurmountable and beyond their capacity...

The heaviest stone ever moved in ancient times was only 517 metric tons. Heaviest at Gobekli Tepe is 50. 30 at Stonehenge. 

* If i was ever to do a megalithic structure, i'd dig a circular moat and drag the stones into place, then once the verticle stones were pulled into the circular trench, id make it so it is ground level and drag then cap stones into place without really having to lift anything. 

Then once everything is in place reomve the soil downward. 

I think you could it with; excavation, quarrying, logs, ropes, and strength.

[ArMaP]

They started carving a megalithic stone and then realized they couldnt move it, so they left it unfinished.  I like that you can see the stone age methods used it the tool striations left in progress.

I don't think they used stone age methods on the 15th century.

The oldest thing (but much smaller) like this I saw personally was a slab of marble that was left attached to the "mother" rock, from Roman times.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

I don't think they used stone age methods on the 15th century.

The oldest thing (but much smaller) like this I saw personally was a slab of marble that was left attached to the "mother" rock, from Roman times.

Lol. Yeah that would be middle ages.

But the point i was making is the CORE principles are the same. Wedging.  

On the obelisk they used stone tools like granite to do it, and 3000 years later they used iron tools to do basically the same thing..

[KVW]

I visited Stonehenge in the early 70s, back then they allowed full access to the site. 

If I were to do a megalithic site like Sacsayhuamán first I would fit the stones together horizontally then stack them vertically once shaped.

[Hanslune]

Watching the video, this quarry is pretty cool actually..


The heaviest stone ever moved in ancient times was only 517 metric tons. Heaviest at Gobekli Tepe is 50. 30 at Stonehenge. 

The heaviest stone moved in ancient and classical times was 1,000 tons, just one, three of 800 and two of 700 tons: full list here is the list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_monoliths

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Well, after those then. And it was 570 tons. 

Just looked it up and got this answer:

The largest single monolith ever cut and successfully moved in ancient times was the Western Stone in Jerusalem (Israel). Installed by the Romans (under Herod the Great) in the 1st century BCE to support the Temple Mount, this massive limestone ashlar weighs roughly 570 metric tons. It measures about 45 feet long, 10 feet tall, and 11 to 15 feet deep.

However, a critical distinction exists between stones that were actually transported and those that were merely quarried but never moved: 

• Successfully Moved: The Western Stone (570 tons). Other major contenders include the three famous Trilithon blocks in Baalbek, Lebanon (each roughly 800 tons, moved a short distance from the quarry). The massive granite columns of the Pantheon in Rome weigh about 60 tons each.
  

I guess they discounted them on how close they were to quarry? 

Even though the "successfully moved" part is from the Wikipedia page.. Take that Baalbek!

[Hanslune]

Well, after those then. And it was 570 tons. 

Just looked it up and got this answer:

I guess they discounted them on how close they were to quarry? 

Even though the "successfully moved" part is from the Wikipedia page.. Take that Baalbek!

They may have, but the Ramses statue that was 1,000 tons is made of pink granite that was extracted from a quarriy along the eastern bank of the Nile in Aswan, roughly 800 lm south of Memphis and Thebes, where the pieces of the statue lie

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Then they missed that one? And you did better than AI.

Thanks for the correction! 

Okay...  so the largest successfully moved one weighed 1000 tons and is the Ramses II one. The largest unfinished one is apparantly the 1200 ton pregnant lady stone is Jerusalem, and the heaviest one abandoned in Egypt is the 1000 ton pink Obelisk left at Aswan.