ATDDTA(10) I've Got That Zinc-ing Feeling [275]

[Monte Davis]

David Morris:

> 1.  Desire for monument (vertical structure).
> 2.  Stability of structure by stable base w/ least weight at 
> top (hard to topple)... 

"Heyerdahl was quite wrong that Central American pyramids must have been
influenced by memories of Egyptian ones. That monumental constructions last
longer if they taper upward from the base is something I myself
re-discovered independently while playing in the dirt at age 4, when I had
scarcely begun my studies of First Dynasty historiography and Chalcolithic
stone-shaping technic."

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