The video argues that clamps and cyclopean masonry are incompatible: clamps restrain sliding, while fitted polygonal stones supposedly do so through their shape alone. That is the presenter's interpretation, not an established rule. Mont Sainte-Odile's Pagan Wall is widely described as cyclopean—about 11 kilometres long and built from roughly 300,000 sandstone blocks—and the presence of a clamp by itself does not rule out cyclopean construction. 🪨
Video argues clamps are incompatible with cyclopean walls
Key facts
- The Pagan Wall at Mont Sainte-Odile is widely described as cyclopean, about 11 kilometres long and built from roughly 300,000 sandstone blocks.
- The cited results do not document clamps at the wall or establish that clamps are categorically incompatible with cyclopean construction.
- The presence of a clamp alone does not prove that masonry is not cyclopean; that conclusion is the video's interpretation.
- The cited results do not substantiate the claim that clamps arose independently across unrelated cultures worldwide.
Sources
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