Astounding formations, Bolivia, S. America

Atlantis Bolivia ^

[djf]

I was doing some web research on prehistoric formations in South America and hit the above website.

It has possibly hundreds of satellite images of what cannot in any sense be natural glyphs and structures on the grounds surrounding Lake Tititaka.

Here is a sample:



Whoever made these artifices, and at what age/time they were made, remain unknown. Literally hundreds, perhaps thousands of square miles of formations.

I know some FReepers are interested in this subject, it certainly seems to me that it might make a bit of a mockery out of any claims that a couple guys crossed the Bering Strait 8000 years ago and that's what started culture in the Western Hemisphere.

Take a look at the pics... they are truly jaw-dropping!

[Fred Nerks]

Sorry, your question doesn't compute...THE LAND ROSE...it was an UPLIFT. The water in the lake SLOSHED until it found the NEW LEVEL. I don't have the scientific vocabulary I need, and I don't have images of all the shoreline of the lake. And we are NOT talking about heavy rainfall...or a flood.

You wrote something about underwater canyons?

They are all over the ocean floor...and they were not all caused by puny little rivers running into the sea, either.

[Fred Nerks]

The ruins of an ancient temple have been found by international archaeologists under Lake Titicaca, the world’s highest lake.

A terrace for crops, a long road and an 800-metre (2,600 feet) long wall was also found under the waters of the lake, sited in the Andes mountains between Bolivia and Peru.

Dating back 1,000 to 1,500 years ago, the ruins are pre-Incan.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/892616.stm

[blam]

Unknown Writing System Uncovered On Ancient Olmec Tablet

[blam]

Fred, I read that during the Ice Age (when the world’s ocean water levels were reduced) that the Nile Valley looked like our Grand Canyon does today.

[Brookhaven]

It still won’t convince me that ancient curltures were visited by space aliens or had some advanced technology like lazer beams.

It will only convince me that modern man has a short attention span.

The idea that someone would be told “your job, your son’s job, your grandson’s job, and your great-grandson’s job, for your entire lives, will be to sand this stone until it is perfectly smooth” is unthinkable to modern man, because we are so impatient. But multi-generational projects were more common in earlier times.

We know that something as gentle as water flowing over a stone can (with time) make it as smooth as glass. Which is easier to believe: that men (over multiple generations) sanded those stones smooth, or that space aliens provided them laser beams?

This is just another example of where something could be accomplished with simple persitiance and time. No other explination is required.

The examples you give certainly could have been created by ancient Americans without any special technology.

[wendy1946]

The examples you give certainly could have been created by ancient Americans without any special technology.

Diorite is the next hardest thing to diamonds. You can't do anything at all with it with bronze-age or even iron-age tools. To cut perfectly straight grooves or perfectly flat surfaces in diorite is vastly beyond the capabilities of the culture Europeans found when they came to the Americas.

[ckilmer]

this is of a piece with surveys I’ve seen of amazonian jungles that show immense pre columbian habitation.

apparently the diseases the spanish and portugese brought in killed many many millions of natives all over the americas.

[Brookhaven]

Diorite is the next hardest thing to diamonds. You can't do anything at all with it with bronze-age or even iron-age tools. To cut perfectly straight grooves or perfectly flat surfaces in diorite is vastly beyond the capabilities of the culture Europeans found when they came to the Americas.

Your premise is incorrect.

Diorite is a type of granite, and nowhere near as hard as diamonds.

Granite is a rock composed of quartz, feldspar, and mica. Diorite consists of plagioclase feldspar, biotite, hornblende, and pyroxene. Of these minerals, quartz is the hardest, at 7 on the Mohs hardness scale (diamonds are a 10). Anything with hardness above 7 can be used to cut it.

In short, Diorite is a long way from being as hard as diamonds. There would have been a number of minerals available to ancient Americans that were harder than Diorite and could have been used to cut/polish Diorite.

Diorite is 6.5-7 on Moh's hardness scale. About the same as iron pyrite (fools gold).

This info is easily found just by searching the interent.

[Dogbert41]

What i was looking at are thousands of years old.