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You shot yourself in the foot, I think, with your comment --"Hey, let's carve a big lion." If that is indeed what happened, or anything similar, you have implied a rather advanced culture exists; for anyone to have time to do such a thing, ( my own carving included), you have to have a surplus of time--liesure time, essentially, and resources. The Sphinx is a massive undertaking calling for surveying skills, skilled and unskilled labor (stone masons, rubble removal, etc), crew supervision, feeding, housing, as well as a system of either recruiting, or forcing labor to be expended on the building of such a monument. These workers are not working the crops, catching the fish, hunting the game; someone ELSE has to do that, i.e., a division/specialisation of labor, something usually associated with 'civilisations'.
You imply that it takes no skill to produce a carving; I have seen the unskilled try to pull it off, and, I'm afraid, it doesn't work. Skill is proven by the fact that we can view this huge statue of a 'lion', and know that's what it is-we can recognize the subject of the carving; if it had been done by unskilled labor just 'hacking away' at the rock, we would be viewing it and reacting like 'O.K., yeah, um, what the hell is it?"
You imply that it takes no skill to produce a carving; I have seen the unskilled try to pull it off, and, I'm afraid, it doesn't work. Skill is proven by the fact that we can view this huge statue of a 'lion', and know that's what it is-we can recognize the subject of the carving; if it had been done by unskilled labor just 'hacking away' at the rock, we would be viewing it and reacting like 'O.K., yeah, um, what the hell is it?"
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