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Yangshan Quarry's Giant Stele, Nubs & Flint with Mark Leithead — Part 1 of 4 | Classics Rotation
Mark Leithead, a Canadian biology teacher living in China who films ancient sites by drone for his Megalithic China channel, joins the host to tour the enormous unfinished stele blocks at Yangshan Quarry near Nanjing. If you want a close look at the biggest cut stone the host has heard of, its square "nubs," and why Mark thinks the black, polished-looking rock is flint rather than ordinary limestone, this opening part covers that.
The host praises Mark's footage for moving from microscopic close-ups of the stone to wide drone pullbacks that show where each site sits in relation to the nearby…
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