[robinsoh]

Not to my knowledge. Almost all European stone walls all use mortar. Drystan is more like piling rocks together. They aren't shaped.

The Inca (or possibly their predecessor civilization) techniques at Sacsayhuaman and Machu Picchu are far more advanced. It is still unclear exactly how they achieved those structures. We're talking about 140 tonne rocks being put together to form those structures and assembled without mortar in such a way that one can't slip a piece of paper in between rocks.

When the Conquistadors encountered the structures, they had no idea how they were being made or put together. They pulled them apart and used the pulled apart chunks with mortar to build cathedrals that mostly fell apart every time there was a tectonic movement.

It breaks my heart that we don't know how to build such structures to this day. We use cement concrete which is a massive source of CO2 production. If we could have somehow preserved the knowledge of how those structures were built instead of burning their books-khippus, and killing their stone masons and scientists, we could have had a very different modern world today.

[kiba]

They have a whole field called experimental archaeology that's exactly about these sort of things.

[robinsoh]

I'm unsure what you're trying to communicate.