Alain Martel <kua### [at] videotronca> wrote:

> WHY does the author totally ignore that it could have been made entirely
> by hand WITHOUT any technology more advanced than Bronze age tools and
> lot of available time.
> Once roughly carved, the object can get meticulously refined and
> smoothed by hand.

Because they never tried. Because they have no clue what can be achieved with
simple hand tools and time. Because they don't think about the amount of time
one had in those days. Time to observe, time to learn a skill, time to produce.

ingo

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