Please, make sure you get the names correct if you are going to ascribe someone a position.
Yes sorry I get confused with posters. It was a standout as it was contradictory to what all other objections.
Nevertheless you seem to believe that we must find the device before being able to make any determinations about what caused the actual marks. I think this is not necessary for obvious reasons.
The Petrie vases are not like Porsches though.
Yes I made an exaggerated example to hit home the illogical thinking. Lets say it was a precision part that looks a part that goes into a Porche. This will have much of the same precision of a vase that has been lathed. We don't need to find the manufacturing machine that made that part.
We can say as it meets the requirements of machining by its signatures. As opposed to say a hand made part without machining which for good reasons is not how we make precision parts.
Its ironic really. Because we don't have the traditional tools and device in the records for back then. Yet you and others are quite happy to accept this method without finding the device.
Actually, we know that replicas was made even at the time of Petrie's dogs. This is why I would be much happier with investigations of vases from well documented modern dogs.
Petrie was excavating from the later 19th century. I would like to see any examples of attempts to create these vases back then. I have a feeling they were not as precise. Even today manufactures say that replicating these vases is not easy and requires specialist machining. Especially on the inside.
Perhaps they were inherited, but until we can say that they ARE inherited we can't use them to argue about predynastic vases.
Well this is the point. Who is saying this. The skeptics will always want more and more and more evidence which can be overly demanding. Whereas many institutions, dealers, and most importantly the market says they are the real deal.
They are often good enough to be guranteed their worth and to be housed in museums and referred to as examples of predyanstic works. I would rather fall on the side with the mainstream acceptance that a few hyper skeptics.
Olga managed to make a vase with better exterior quality (according to Max) by only having a method to mark areas that were higher than the rest.
Lol you do realise Your actually making a case for advanced tech using wheels and laths with modern day bearings to stablise the work for OLga to achieve this. Without it she would not have been able.
Then well we have not even began to mention the interior which was nowhere near the level of the vases and an impossible task to be marking little spots on a wheel to then reach in and chip away. Not does her method look anything like the near perfect arcs cut into the stone Petrie mentions. Or what we clearly see on the insides.
A Note on the ‘Replica’ Vases
The ‘replica’ vases ‘O1’ and ‘O2’ were made by Olga Vdovina in collaboration with the antropogenez.ru. The objective of the replication effort was to show that it was possible to make stone vases using stone, wood, and copper tools known to ancient Egyptians.
I must point out that Olga Vdovina made the vase ‘O1’ using a plastic rotary table supported by a ball bearing to control the outer surface accuracy through rotation by painting the elevated spots with a sharpie marker
The use of modern technology in making the ‘O1’ vase represented a significant deviation from the initial objective of antropogenez.ru to use only the tools available to the ancient Egyptians.
Nevertheless, both vases are classified as ‘IMPRECISE’ according to the proposed quality metric. This remarkable circularity was achieved due to the use of the ball-bearing supported rotary table, which is a contemporary piece of technology that was not available to the ancient Egyptians.
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There are other ways to do that that don't involve rotating the object. You can soot the inside of a hole in a piece of wood and polish the surfaces that get soot on them, my speculation. There are probably other ways to, that more experienced artisans have developed as a matter of fact during their careers.
Yes and thats my whole point. Now your thinking outside the circular. The use of heat and fire to shape objects. A natural phenomena that is enhanced by humans. I mentioned the softening of stone which is a similar logic.
But it seems askeptics only want certain alternative ways that align with modern tech which then means that anything that looks similar must have been made with some sort of primitive tool and sheer rubbing from the beginning to create everything we see.
If for example we found burn marks or evidence of burning or heating to shape these vases then you would have to by logic of your example on wood be open to such alternative ways.
Petrie was active well before the methods of archeology had matured
Petrie actually pioneered modern archeology. He is like the Einstein of phsyics. His measures though not down to the micron were what set the science of archeology. He rigidly recorded every detail.
Yes modern tech was not available and thats why his opinion is untainted. He is just observing and measuring a new thing almost. But they did have the lathing principles at that time. In fact it would have been the new tech for that time and well known by scientists in the field. They were at the forefront.
In fact none of Petries contemporaries disagreed with his measurements and explanations of the methods. They just did not like the idea of actually saying that this was like modern tech or required modern ways of lathing. Or lathing at all.
and whilst he obviously was very interested in ancient Egypt, just because he says something doesn't make it true. The fact that he supposedly gave things away, makes me believe that he at least sometimes made quite substantial mistakes. Most of his writings are not peer-reviewed either.
Lol your now subjectively making claims about Petries motives and thinking to use as evidence to undermine him. Just because he says something that many, even his contempories agreed with and can see with their own eyes.
The reason he gave away vases as gifts was that there were so many. These were not all precision vases. They were the minority being at the top of the best exanmples and reserved for royalty. But he did so for some as that was the kind of person he was and I would say that back then the whole thing about vases and auctions and precision was not a thing.
But none of this is relevant to the facts that he recorded the precision and marks on the vases and gave his best opinion from a scientific explanation for what may have caused them. But this is not rocket science either. Theres a big difference between exact arcs that are cut into vases and pounding, chipping and rubbing.
Coincidentally? They have probably read him.
Here it is again. The reduction of anyone who dares suggest the same findings must all be deluded and are seeing things that are not there. Like some contagious mental disorder that causes them to be fooled. Never any thought that repeated findings may be good science lol.
The pictures you have shown don't have exact uniform arcs.
So wait now your doing it to Petrie. He is looking directly at the arcs in the vases. What he depicts in only a small example. But he is looking directly at them and with his vase expertise telling us how the arc is uniform and meets exactly when reset. The steps around the lip stepped up with the same exact arc.
But you believe the pictures prove him wrong because of what you think they look like. I would rather believe Petrie and others who have actually measured and tested these vases.
Max should get his stuff published if he believes in it.
Actually Max mentions this. He says he is already publishing them on his site. They are open articvles available for peer review and this is actually happening right now. Whether that is taken to a jouranl I don't know. But whats the difference. Both are open to scientists to peer review.
Like I said the hostile reception and biases of those who even suggest such things even before it is explained is not a good environment and is usually hestitant in even allowing such articles.
But he has published stuff.
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So he is a scientists and thinks in such terms and not some whacko that is deluded into thinking aliens or Atlantis created these vases lol.