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Would you be able to show a picture of what you're talking about? Not because I doubt your story or their abilities, but I'm convinced that the difference in precision would be immediately apparent. If it weren't, we would not be scratching our heads about how these structures were built thousands of years ago.
Some people in this thread seem unaware that there really is no explanation about how these stones were so precisely cut. So when someone starts arguing about how it's "just stacking rocks" or coming up with anecdotes to insinuate the feasibility with just some skill and persistence, it displays a lack of understanding of the issue in my opinion.
Nobody is arguing that it's hard to stack rocks, but we are dabbling in quantum mechanics yet we have no explanation for the precision achieved in these structures. Just because it isn't likely to be aliens or ancient wisdom from Atlantis doesn't mean that dismissive oversimplified explanations are justified.
Oh, yeah. I took tons of photos of those walls over the years. Most of them are in archives, though; like I said, we lived there over a decade ago, but I have one in my front photo album:
I do have a picture of one end pillar, but that has pointing, and it's not obvious that pointing is aesthetic and not structural mortar (although it is often applied over mortered stone). Anyway, you can't tell the stone isn't mortared b/c of the pointing, so it isn't a useful illustration.
That photo above, however, is clear there's no mortar, and yet that hundred y/o wall is astonishingly straight and level.
That picture illustrates my point though. It's just a wall with stacked stone, something very common to see, especially as a European. The difference with OP's pictures is immense, and given the difference in age only makes it more puzzling.