The shamir in the Talmudic story

In Gittin 68a, Solomon asks how the Temple stones can be prepared without the sound of iron tools. The sages answer that a creature called the shamir can cut them. The search leads to Ashmedai, who says in 68b that a bird keeps it. ^[1]

The story says the bird splits rock with the shamir and that Solomon's servants obtain it by covering the bird's nest with glass. This is a narrative explanation of Temple building, not evidence that archaeologists have identified a stone-working technology called the shamir. ^[2]