[Aztlan] Plaster & Echoes

[Paul Troemner]

Sam,

Lack of existing evidence is not fact.  Many of the ancient American structures appear to have used consistent units of measurement and appeared to have specific shape requirements (square, rectangle, circle, etc.).  The structures were built with, if not drawings on paper, metal, or stone, some very extensive forethought.  I would think with the difficulty in producing paper, metal, or stone scale drawings (and I seem to recall there is at least one example of a set of ancient stone to-scale drawings at a site somewhere near the Mediterranean Ocean), the ancient architects and engineers must have relied far more heavily upon their memory than we do.

I do believe there is a strong possibility the Quetzal-chirping design was intended, and not an accident.  I think that some of the ancient architects and engineers had a better right-brain left-brain balance of abilities than we do now, and the creative relationships between time and space were more obvious to them when such balance is present.

Anyway, that's my two centavos.

Paul Troemner

--- On Tue, 8/26/08, Sam Edgerton <Samuel.Y.Edgerton at williams.edu> wrote:

> From: Sam Edgerton <Samuel.Y.Edgerton at williams.edu>
> Subject: [Aztlan] Plaster & Echoes
> To: 
> Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 12:02 PM
> Listeros: As a frequent critic of David Lubman's and
> Wayne van Kirk's 
> acoustical theories because, given the fact that the
> ancient builders did 
> not employ measured drawings to scale by which to
> anticipate such sacred 
> bird-call echoes a priori...