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an overlooked inca wonder
Archaeology ^ | April 5, 2016 | Eric A. Powell

Posted on 05/05/2017 1:31:07 AM PDT by SteveH

Members of the public regularly get in touch with Charles Stanish, an expert on Andean cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. Two years ago, Stanish received a call from a man in Pittsburgh who had just seen a program claiming that aliens played a large role in the lives of ancient people. He was interested in getting Stanish’s take on a particular Peruvian site purported to be the handiwork of extraterrestrials. “I always try to be nice to people like that,” says Stanish. “For whatever reason, they are interested in the ancient past, and I share with them what archaeologists know about the subject.” In this case, the man asked Stanish what he thought about the idea of aliens constructing a strange alignment of pits, known popularly as the “Band of Holes,” in Peru’s Pisco Valley. Though he has worked in the area for more than 30 years, Stanish had never heard of the site. He and his colleague Henry Tantaleán took a look at its coordinates on Google Earth for themselves, and were surprised by satellite imagery showing that the Band of Holes is indeed a highly unusual artificial feature. It seemed to be made up of thousands of small depressions running upslope. “I’d never seen anything like it,” says Stanish. “It really seemed unique.” It was also only 10 miles from Stanish and Tantaleán’s own excavations in the nearby Chincha Valley. Intrigued, they decided to try to understand the curious site.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: inca; peru
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To: PLMerite

Remnants of the legendary “Great Leap Forward”.


21 posted on 05/05/2017 7:46:18 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: SteveH

Peru has a lot of stuff like this. Perhaps even more impressive are the subterranean water holes of the harsh Nazca desert.

(pictures)

http://i.imgur.com/SazFHME.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/gBxvAkL.jpg

You only really see how impressive with a video made inside the holes.

(video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N14Q-9jpAPM


22 posted on 05/05/2017 8:07:42 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Leftists aren't fascists. They are "democratic fascists", a completely different thing.)
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To: MattinNJ

I’ve also heard that mythical Atlantis might not have been an island, but a global coastal civilization during the ice age. The interiors of most continents would have been glacial, with the inhabitable areas on the continental shelves that are now underwater, since ocean levels were lower then. There is also evidence of large stone structures off the coasts of Europe and South America that appear to be man made. When the ice age melted, the rising of ocean level might have occurred as a chain reaction instead of taking place slowly. The catastrophe might not have allowed them time to transition farther inland.


23 posted on 05/05/2017 11:03:17 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Red Badger

I understand that. But I am not sure why they need so many? Did everyone show up at once with their produce? That would be some rotten produce by the time they were finished.

That’s what got me thinking about other uses. Without knowing what was around at the time makes that almost impossible to do from New England.


24 posted on 05/05/2017 11:46:03 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

I saw the show that was mentioned in the article. I had never heard of these holes, and neither, apparently had the professor, even though he had done excavations just a few miles away.

As the article points out, these holes look very similar to the groupings of marks on boards that the Incan IRS used in other places to collect taxes. Kind of like a Cribbage Board for revenue.

Look around that area, and what do you see? NOTHING! No trees for miles, no vegetation nearby. So no local materials to make a Cribbage Board.

So the local Incan IRS officers used the next best thing, rocks and dirt.

We don’t know what their volume measures were called (we do know their length and distance units), like bushel, peck, quart and gallon, but these pits very nearly match up in size to about 5-7 bushels volume, which would be a fairly good tribute or tax, depending on your farm plots. ...........


25 posted on 05/05/2017 12:03:28 PM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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To: PLMerite

thanks

one good urn deserves another

lol


26 posted on 05/05/2017 5:09:34 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Agreed. The resulting tsunami from the flash melting of ice caps would have wiped out coastal cities and any boats at sea. Sea levels would have risen dramatically


27 posted on 05/06/2017 6:52:02 PM PDT by MattinNJ (I am optimistic about the USA for the first time in a decade)
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