Puma Punku
SUMMARY
H-blocks machined in andesite. The tool marks look like nothing from its century.
FULL DOSSIER
Part of Tiwanaku (Bolivia, c. 500-1000 CE): andesite and sandstone blocks cut with flat interior angles and repeated precision (the H-blocks) at 12,800 feet, by a culture without written records. Mainstream archaeology attributes them to skilled stone tools and templates; the machining appearance keeps it in the ancient-technology cluster with Baalbek and the Serapeum.
SOURCES ON RECORD
01Vranich excavation reports
02Protzen & Nair, 'The Stones of Tiahuanaco' (2013)
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