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The Pre-Columbian Stonecutting Techniques of the Mexican Plateau

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

J. Ogden Outwater Jr.
J. Ogden Outwater Jr.*
Affiliation:
University of VermontBurlington, Vt.
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Although the problem of stonecutting techniques is but one key to understanding the civilizations of the Middle American people, it is through their stonework that they left their greatest mark and in order to fully appreciate the organization and magnitude of their achievements, we must examine this aspect. To this end the author, who is by training and experience a mechanical engineer, attempted to check in various centers in Mexico on the feasibility of estimating the man years required to build various monuments in order to test hypotheses concerning techniques of construction.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , January 1957 , pp. 258 - 264
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1957

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