Explaining a Protrusion Mystery

Why has no one yet suggested a method used to made those protruding cylindrical circles? That’s lame. Let’s see what logic might offer. The place to start is with the least likely possibility. By identifying and eliminating it we will be left with the more likely ones.
The least likely possibility is the one that would be hardest to accomplish and the most unthinkable. That would be the one that would have required removing all of the stone surrounding the protrusions in a very labor-intensive effort. It would have to start with blocks that were that much wider than all of those without the protrusions…which were formed by a much simpler process. Such a laborious process would not occur to any reasonable mind if a much simpler method was available.

One simpler method would be to drill some cores and attach them to the face of the blocks with support rods in the center. That would not be very hard nor very easy since a lot of drilling time and effort would have been needed. And there is no evidence of such a method having been used since there are no holes seen where one or more might have fallen off. Still, not impossible or unthinkable.

The final two possibilities change the paradigm by rejecting the assumption that the blocks are quarried and flattened natural stone. It assumes that they are just more examples of using reconstituted stone to make blocks just like reconstituted mud was used to make bricks.

In that case, the protrusions were the result of an alteration to the normal quadrangular shape of the molds or forms, meaning they resulted from an empty cylinder protruding from the side of the mold. That would be possible but perhaps difficult to attach if not made of metal.

The remaining alternative would be to just use normal molds but then, immediately after removing the mold walls, -before the blocks had hardened, attach the freshly molded cylinders to the still semi-wet surfaces of the blocks, perhaps securing them with rods in the center, or possibly just having the protrusion face of the blocks facing skyward.

Does that not sound like the simplest and easiest method of all? It ought to because something like it had to have been used in Peru where such cylinders protrude from the wide solid face of the stone mass of a mountain side after huge slabs of stone had been extracted by some unknown means at some unknown time by unknown extractors. And you can be sure that the stone of the mountain side is a lot harder (igneous) than the probably reconstituted limestone of these Mediterranean blocks. But if those protrusions were not add-ons then some kind of insanely capable extraterrestrial technology had to have been used to mill away all the stone mass surrounding them. No one has any explanation for them and none that might exist are good ones, so you have to go with the least bad one. 😉

What possible purpose could such protrusions have served? Decoration? If so then why are they not on every block instead of just some? And it’s certain that that quarried rock face in Peru was not being decorated. So that only leaves the possibility that they served as some kind of marker or signal…at least originally. The newer Mediterranean blocks may have simply been paying homage to a revered ancient mystery… possibly the work of the gods…as it appears to be in Peru…and many other ancient sites around the world.

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