Posted on 08/15/2021 1:17:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Machu Picchu, the famous 15th-century Inca site in southern Peru, is up to several decades older than previously thought, according to a new study led by Yale archaeologist Richard Burger.
Burger and researchers from several U.S. institutions used accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) — an advanced form of radiocarbon dating...
Historical sources dating from the Spanish invasion of the Inca Empire indicate that Pachacuti seized power in A.D. 1438 and subsequently conquered the lower Urubamba Valley where Machu Picchu is located. Based on those records, scholars have estimated that the site was built after A.D. 1440, and perhaps as late as A.D. 1450, depending on how long it took Pachacuti to subdue the region and construct the stone palace...
The finding suggests that Pachacuti, whose reign set the Inca on the path to becoming pre-Columbian America’s largest and most powerful empire, gained power and began his conquests decades earlier than textual sources indicate...
The AMS technique can date bones and teeth that contain even small amounts of organic material, expanding the pool of remains suitable for scientific analysis. For this study, the researchers used it to analyze human samples from 26 individuals that were recovered from four cemeteries at Machu Picchu in 1912 during excavations led by Yale professor Hiram Bingham III...
The bones and teeth used in the analysis likely belonged to retainers, or attendants, who were assigned to the royal estate, the study states. The remains show little evidence of involvement in heavy physical labor, such as construction, meaning that they likely were from the period when the site functioned as a country palace, not when it was being built, the researchers said.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yale.edu ...
In reply to your outlandish claim - how does one KNOW how much carbon was in the sample way back whenever?
Assumptions?
How does one rule out contamination?
Make outlandish claims? And counterclaims?
Biden lost.
Contamination of samples is a possibility, which is why samples are collected so carefully. When the probability of contamination rises, the whole sample is rejected.
Not outlandish at all.
The intransigence of archaeology never ceases to amaze me.
https://hiddenincatours.com/megalithic-works-in-cusco-peru-made-long-before-the-inca-existed/
Check out some of the Graham Hancock videos on YouTube if you haven’t before. It’s obvious the Incas didn’t have the technology to cut/melt stone.
700 yr old teeth scrapings tell us so much but
We can’t get Rid of a
Damn China flu in a
Year and a half!
Wake up America!
Thank you. Yale university says it was built 700 years ago, give or take 10 years, what a bunch of, what a crock of... And these guys have PhD’s in history and write books. Peer reviewed no doubt, aka faculty members giving each other reach-arounds.
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