Word: stoneworking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cold wind swept over the thick dark grass outside, whistled through the moonlit Gothic stonework, the parapets, battlements, and pinnacles intricately crowning the buildings with medieval bulk and solemnity...
...high intellectual or artistic life of the ancient Mayans. He thinks that the theocratic society of the Mayans was much like that of medieval Europe, where peasants lived in miserable villages around great cathedrals, and most of their substance was sucked up into the spires of lacy stonework. In the same way, thinks Dr. Willey, the peasants of Barton Ramie lived and died for the benefit of the priests of Benque Viejo...
When the doorway was cleared, Ruz found that the room measured 26 ft. by 13 ft., with a ceiling 19 ft. high. The stonework was beautifully fitted and some of it was polished like marble. The walls were covered with stucco bas-reliefs of gorgeously costumed priests. Dominating the hidden chamber was the altar, built of two carved stone blocks. On the altar was a "Palenque Cross": a stone carving of the Mayan tree of life...
...floor stood a "float": a block of stone with a handle on it, that was used to smooth stonework or stucco. Archaeologist Lehmann likes to think that the float was in use when Emperor Theodosius' edict (and probably the Emperor's soldiers) arrived in the sacred valley, and that it has remained there ever since the day the Great Gods died...