It stands 45 meters tall, and has a sculpted jaguar as its temple. How could one culture create such magnificent structures? The answer is sheer manpower. The Mayans lacked iron tools and modern technology; they were a neolithic culture. They used an enormous amount of manpower to raise these magnificent structures. The priests, which were the head of the community, supervised the labor of the common people. An interesting fact is the Maya had specialized workers, such as architects, who planned and watched the construction to make sure it was going well, and then would report to the priest about the pyramid's construction (Sharer 196). Their religion was such a big part of their regular lifestyles that any common person would come help build the temples to worship the gods. The common people worked on these enormous projects to pay homage to the king and state (Sharer 196 ). The actual manual labor normally took place during the time that they were unable to do their agricultural work, so they would not be abandoning their crops and have the people starving to create the temple(Hernandez 13). The laborers had to carry loads of materials on their backs or roll them on logs to get them from the source, maybe a nearby quarry, to the construction site(Stierlin 132). The tools that they had to work with were very simple. They used tools such as braided rope, fire and basalt axes on wood. Fire was very unpredictable so they switched to basalt axes for a little more precision. On stone they used tools made of flint, obsidian, granite, limestone, and quartzite(Stierlin 132). but they had a "plumb bob" which was a square level, with a heavy weight connected with a string to the square level, and it was used for balancing and being able to have a perfectly level horizontal surface to build a temple on (Stierlin 131, Neufeldt 452). There would be hundreds or thousands of peasants working on this construction(Hernandez 13).