Video: Crimean quarries
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
Videos of researchers who visited the catacombs, quarries in the Crimea. And analysis of information from these videos.
The reader shared the videos: Prehistoric traces of high-tech stone processing
We watch from the 5th minute. Comments below … These tracks are especially interesting:
How were they left behind? And by what technology?
Footprints on the ceiling
In this place of development, too, the same traces
The traces left by the cutter. There are some layers on the walls
The cutter height was about 25 cm
Champagne Mountain
Also traces from the cutter
Cutter height about 32cm
Ceiling For example, here are the types of modern limestone workings:
Sawed down the rock with a chain saw (wide traces are visible)
They did it with about such a saw, although for cutting limestone there could be a saw in an easier way. See below
Wall surface with modern workings
The width of the cuts is 25mm It is possible that this was done with this installation:
Here is a stone cutting machine in the face. You can see the tracks as in the last video, but they do not look like the tracks from the first videos.
Cutting lime blocks in the quarry. As you can see, in our time there are huge hydraulic mobile saws And now let's return to the first screenshots made from the video, which shows the traces of the cutter on the walls. It turns out that it was done like this:
The process of sawing shell rock. All the same arcuate grooves remain (from a circular saw). A source
There are also horizontal stripes on the wall
Inclined stripes on the wall in the foreground
The process itself, and with automatic feeding of cut blocks. The installation looks very simple.
Here is an underground mine working with similar equipment. But this video does not explain the marks on the ceiling of the faces from the first videos. They are not at all like the marks from this modern saw. In addition, there are old photographs of Inkerman from the late 19th century:
There are already developments
It generally looks like a giant quarry
Aqueduct in the Georgievskaya Balka.
Apparently ancient quarry I think some of the underground mining technology is shown. But questions remain where are all these volumes of limestone (even in destroyed form) and when was it mined?
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