I was told they were that shape so they could easily be set upright in sand, there’s Roman writing that says they considered the shape sacred and had copied it from older cultures - in other words they had no idea themselves. But to ancient middle eastern cultures the ability to stand the. In sand would have been a real benefit
@ProfClaudeBallsКүн бұрын
There must have been a particular kind of a loop-and-knot arrangement, to support them properly with minimum framework required. It would have been easy to tie knots, but more problematic to make wooden structures for every different storeroom or ship's hold; every different set of amphorae; etc.
@ClimateScepticSceptic-ub2rgКүн бұрын
Ease of manufacture and strength would accoount for the shape.
@FlaaaaandersКүн бұрын
Twas concrete
@thearchitect5796Күн бұрын
I personally believe all of these unexplained megalithic sites are pre younger dryas
@BooksForeverКүн бұрын
A key notion, if you’ve ever tried digging and cleaning out a hole, the biggest challenge is to square out the base for a flat bottom. A natural taper toward a deepest center is significantly easier to produce.
@deannahopper8512Күн бұрын
I’ve been wondering about those pointy bottoms for years. Thanks!
@cargo_vroom9729Күн бұрын
This video is mostly explaining the concept of basements.
@nebiddleКүн бұрын
Seems from the picture of two men carrying the container, the more narrow bottom gave more space for the legs to walk without bumping it. It was likely a balance and physics based reason. When I am carrying a bottle if I hold it at the narrow top the contents slosh a lot. If I tip it upside down with spout at the bottom the liquid stays still.
@joesantos7085Күн бұрын
Ive always wondered how someone first decided to make a clay jug and how they figured out of you fore clay it will harden and how to make ceramics especially since iy was invented before written language.
@samdumaquis2033Күн бұрын
Wow
@stephenwagener349Күн бұрын
Best @ 1.75 x speed
@duncanbradshaw8993Күн бұрын
They would be easier to pull out of the ground. The shape would be stronger for ground storage when using clay.
@woowoo111111Күн бұрын
Umm, but the shape is so they float - I can't believe you didn't mention that. The difference between a flat bottomed amphora and a pointed bottom one is buoyancy.
@KAZVorpalКүн бұрын
Your new idea makes no sense, because it has nothing to do with them being pointy. They could be buried even without a pointy base.
@denisemarshall24322 күн бұрын
What sort of clay was used for these? Unglazed terracotta (earthenware) is porous after firing, which is why it is used to make 'olla's' to water plants.
@mockfish2 күн бұрын
Flat bottom containers can be package easily and provide more volume and they won't shift as readily during transport. Packing them in crates with padding or straw makes more sense than complicated racks and wooden contraptions to fit the shape. But since you don't have a forklift, crates are impractical. Enter the amphora. They're just easier to carry by hand by a single individual. Grab a big handle up top with your left hand, tip it forward and grab the 'handle' at the bottom and pick it up easily and with a better grip than a flat edged bottom. A long line of workers can just carry them in or out one at a time and stack them quickly and easily. Add a handle to each end of cylinder plus a spout at one end and you have amphora. A hundred people, slaves maybe, could load a ship in no time. Rolling them on the tip would only make sense for something gigantic. Smaller vessels would take too long to roll when carrying them would be easier. Besides, you would see the wear on them commonly and it would be noted. I'm sure it occurred but only as a point of lazy convenience rather than intent. Burying them in the ground for cooling only makes sense for large volume, long term storage. Digging up and burying millions of these over and over again would be pointless simply on the basis of how disposable they appear to be.
@randomgrinn2 күн бұрын
So a flat bottom can't be below ground surface, only a pointed bottom can? Your lengthy explanation focuses on the wrong thing and makes no sense.
@slick44013 күн бұрын
North of Alicante, Spain, there is a mountain town (I forget its name) and near it there is a small natural cave that goes about four meters into the solid rock on the north side of a hill. The sun never shines there (no pun intended) and the inside of the cave is always very cool. I visited it twice, once in the middle of summer. It was strange to walk from the hot air outside into that decidedly cold chamber. The temperature difference was many degrees.
@jkar47273 күн бұрын
3:00 he gets to the point.
@flyingsodwai13823 күн бұрын
I can't think of any reason the shape of the bottom facilitates burying.
@jontuck26103 күн бұрын
Would these amphora be difficult to make, on a potters wheel etc.?
@9000ftElev3 күн бұрын
Have any amphoras been found or dug up configured as you describe?
@user-pt3gi5ul2e3 күн бұрын
I was going to guess pointy butt rolls in an arc like a plover's egg, so would be slower to roll away if they got loose. Video and comments are rich with better reasons, as well!
@harrykuheim61073 күн бұрын
Ship Ballast was ofter rocks or gravel...these could be worked into it and provide extra ballast
@JustinLinder-uo4kj4 күн бұрын
I think the knobs were used as a leverage knob to either lift or flip the stones somehow. I cant help but think they used water to shape these stones, but I just don't see how they could have pressurized it to the degree needed to cut through anything. Pressurized water is actually the sharpest cutter in the world. Close 2nd is Diamond. Look it up ;)
@ritakonig18914 күн бұрын
😂😂😂😂 lots of theories snd no evidence in sight. 😂😂😂😂
@EllieMaes-Grandad4 күн бұрын
Please don’t be influenced by insidious current attempts at denial of Christianity. BC and AD define the years of Our Lord. Reject "common era" stuff (CE & BCE).
@marchorstmann74424 күн бұрын
What do I think in the comments below? Well, I think there is one best reason to make those bases pointy: if those bases would be flat, people would set up the amphorae upright. And this would call for havocs of all kind. Including the domino effect ...
@user-zb4he1to1g4 күн бұрын
One of the Spanish explorers I believe gave a report that they used a reddish mortor between joints and applied it to outside of rock as well causing it to be melted together and excess was scooped
@CcCc-qd6yd4 күн бұрын
Your accent is just as annoying as an indian one, particularly when you say thousand.
@danielnelson69714 күн бұрын
One could hypothesize as well that with their pointed bases, if they were held in some type of a mount, either in the ground or in a racking system through some type of hole, they might be less likely to tip over during an earthquake
@dondeutsch5 күн бұрын
While the shape may ship better it does not keep the wine cooler.
@paulyule74135 күн бұрын
Not every old ceramic vessel is an amphora. The story line meanders sometimes. It is cooler below surface. You can overdue it with that topic.
@richardfarris22275 күн бұрын
One little issue: the Incas have never claimed to have built megalithic architecture. They say someone before them built them.
@charlescarlson12905 күн бұрын
Okay, lots of interesting conjecture, but wow not much actual scientific data other than “cooler below the surface, which as been known for forever.” It probably not something we or anyone else really needs to be concerned about.😊
@JohnKSedor5 күн бұрын
At least this stays away from the ridiculous “Alien theory”. People are smarter in many ways the further you go back in history. Look at our some of our most complicated math and languages, they go back to the beginning.
@stephenmanning15535 күн бұрын
I worked underground on the edge of the Western Desert of Western Australia. Last summer (2023/24) had daytime maxima of 45+C. By the time you get 100M underground that temperature steadies at 24C. Of course being a desert climate it gets very cold in winter especially at night. Standing in the cage ready to go down the shaft at night was horrible. By the time we arrived at 11 level (385M) underground it was lovely. AND if you have a cold or the flu the elevated air pressure and salt content made us feel great after 20 or so minutes. At the end of shift you feel marvelous but sadly by the time you get home its back to shiver's and shakes.
@TadPrice-ih7iv5 күн бұрын
They had help.
@miroslavzikic5 күн бұрын
Finally someone thought of the same thing I have. I always thought it was for sticking it in the ground for cooling. But I also like the explanation about collecting residue on the bottom, it makes sense. The rest of explanations are not as satisfactory as these two, in my opinion.
@sykorabsurd5 күн бұрын
I appreciate your informative & concise video. In my work in a cultural history museum's exhibition department we displayed a few amphora'. The largest one I can remember took six people to lift. The only practical way to present it was on the floor in a pile of dirt.
@GallonMilkProductions6 күн бұрын
great use of ancient pottery guy i love him
@refindoazhar15076 күн бұрын
Being ambitious is fine, but it looks like these guys are going so above and beyond with the design that they forgot to plan how to move it.
@ArchaeoLogic5 күн бұрын
Yes more above and beyond than anyone in history apparently.. and realised when the majority of the work was already done 🤣
@jan-Sopija6 күн бұрын
0:48 i know this sounds like a cheap joke, but which georgia? im from georgia in the us and there is bright red clay in the ground all over the place.
@yourstruely98966 күн бұрын
They werent moved they were put togheter like the parthenon or poured. like the pantheon roof. Concrete.