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!

[roamer_1]

Then you must know of the Olmecs.

Sure... though not terribly well... I assume, considering our conversation, that you are probably referring to statues which have decidedly African and Asiatic features... And some with Caucasian features as well. At least in my mind, that is the most remarkable subject matter, when discussing Olmecs and migration...

[Cvengr]

IMHO, such excavations might occur over decades to centuries with natural processes such as those which form Seifs in the desert.

They aren’t used today, because we can use heavy equipment to develop the terrain so much more quickly, without much intellectual design into the method of work.

[Free_in_Alabama]

For later reading. Thanks

[numberonepal]

I find the Egyptian/Olmec connections most intriguing.

[r9etb]

Hate to tell you, but the spot in question appears to be in an actively cultivated region. The structures you're looking at, could have been at any time over the past 400 years.

Here's how to get a wider-scale image:

Go to Google Maps, and type "-16.4368,-68.58068" (the latitude and longitude corresponding to your picture) into the Search box.

[Koracan]

Remember the face on Mars.?

[roamer_1]

I find the Egyptian/Olmec connections most intriguing.

Ahhh. S. American pyramids/ziggurats, Egyptian style headdresses, Egyptian mummies with traces of cocaine in their systems... Yes, the links are tantalizing.

But then I am of the opinion that the world was well traveled in ancient times, even on the periphery of recorded history - A study of Phoenician trade routes, to include ooparts of their design is an eye-opening experience. The same with ancient Chinese. And what goes unsaid is the likelihood that any ocean-going trade almost demands the existence of reciprocal systems (other ocean-going trade)... And that every far colony seeds the area it is in with the knowledge needed to produce and operate ocean-going vessels of their own (supposing for a moment that port-side folks are so stupid as to live alongside the great bounty of the ocean and remain incapable of exploiting that bounty...). What passes for science in this area is incredibly naive, IMHO.

[numberonepal]

What passes for science in this area is incredibly naive, IMHO.

Archeologists are a lot like politicians. When they're wrong they are woefully slow to admit it. For instance, "Early Mesoamericans came across a land bridge", or "the Great Pyramid was built by Cheops". Mainstream Archeology is almost as bad as mainstream media - almost. They hang on to things that are shown with data to be patently false.

[SunkenCiv]

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[DavemiesterP]

I know several other archaeologists working in these regions in SA right now that that are working on sites even bigger than this site. Wait until you see the things that they’ve found that haven’t been published yet. You won’t believe what’s coming out in the next few years...trust me...

[Fred Nerks]

A selection of satellite images, some of them of almost art-like quality, which show the extent of canalisation and abandoned cultivations on the Bolivian Altiplano around ORURO.

http://www.atlantisbolivia.org/canalsgallery.htm

Earthmovers of the Amazon

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cerickso/baures/Mann2.html

[wendy1946]

There's more jaw-dropping stuff down there than that. That stuff could plausibly be made by bronze-age people; This could not:

What you see at Puma-Punku is the hardest kinds of stone carved totally straight and flat as if by plasma or laser cutting tools; that seemingly would imply a space-faring civilization.

[Flag_This]

"Everyone knows that Charles Hapgood was a fruitcake."

I forgot they mentioned Hapgood in "2012."

[Flag_This]

Are those photos from tihuanaco?

[Sawdring]

I would bet if you traveled back in time to watch how those objects were carved you say to yourself, “That makes total sense but I can’t believe how much senseless labor it took to do it.”

[wendy1946]

Pumapunku in Bolivia. Again you're talking about cutting perfectly straight grooves and flat surfaces into diorite, which nobody could so with stone or even iron implements.

[KSCITYBOY]

May not have been above the Snow line back then.

[Flag_This]

"May not have been above the Snow line back then."

That's true, but they say the modern snow line is around 5000 meters - does much grow at that altitude or higher?

[Sawdring]

Are suggesting the ancients had modern day technology or were helped by visitors from another planet?

[B4Ranch]

I've been waiting for someone to jump on His theory on "Earth Crust Displacement" was not accepted by the true scientists that know exactly what happened in our history. These days if a person vocalizes anything outside of the accepted and approved thinking they are automatically shunted off the the dark room and labeled as a quack thinker. I get irritated when that happens because it has been proven that a bias is present in almost every open scientific study. IMO, A lot of the writings about 2012 have to do with the desire to see 'your' (the authors) name in print or on the Internet. Making predictions is fun but not very scientific in most cases.