Pumapunku: Human Ingenuity or Complete Mystery?

Jun 14th in Ancient Mysteries by Shannon Smith

The recent discovery of 17 pyramids, 3,000 separate structures and up to 1,000 tombs beneath the surface of the Egyptian desert via infrared satellite scan once again raises the inevitable question; just how much do we really know about the past history of the Earth and the resourcefulness of ancient cultures worldwide?

The answer to this question is more than likely ‘not a great deal’. Sure, mainstream archaeology and history would have us believe that human beings only became civilized enough to be capable of building advanced structures within the last 6,000 years or so, but the actual truth may be more amazing that we let ourselves realize.

Examples of ancient human ingenuity and brilliance are practically everywhere throughout the world; an excellent example is Pumapunku in Bolivia. This site, located around 70 kilometers west of the modern city of La Paz is home to a number of ancient architectural wonders. A structure known as the ‘Plataforma Lítica’ at this site includes a red sandstone block which weighs 131 metric tons, and was quarried near Lake Titicaca roughly 10 kilometres away. Just how the Incans managed to move this gigantic monolith is still a matter of contention among many archaeologists. The wonders of this ancient site don’t stop there; the majority of Pumapunku is constructed from stones carved so perfectly and fitted together with such precision that not even a razor blade would pass between the gaps! In addition, none of these blocks are held together with the aid of mortar, an impressive feat indeed.

So who were the creators of Pumapunku, and what methods were used to construct such a wondrous place? Did the Incans have access to advanced building techniques, now lost in the annals of time? Were they assisted by their ‘gods’ with technology, possibly extraterrestrial in nature? Was this site even built by the Incans, or did they claim it for their own hundreds or even thousands of years later? Consider another angle; is Pumapunku even as old as the scientific community believes, or is the site considerably more ancient, perhaps beyond the limit of what we assume to be the beginning of human civilisation? The mystery continues.

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http://www.facebook.com/people/Dan-Kuehnert/100000090873885 Dan Kuehnert

Welcome to the Mu family Shannon! i like your debut topic to boot. looking forward to seeing what you produce!
iMick

I love this stuff!! More please! Unlike alot of the paranormal/mysterious phenomena, anomalous architecture is actual tangible stuff that could be just a plane ride away for us mere mortals to experience ourselves. Fascinating.
David

Didn’t it take the Romans something like 100 years to move the biggest obelisk because they couldn’t figure out how do it.
http://interstellarhousewife.com/ Deirdre

I do not think enough credit is given to human ingenuity, so I appreciate the consideration of such in the article. I agree however, that it is baffling how many of these architectures were constructed, whether it be in South America, Asia, Europe, and so forth. Yet, I do not understand the (rather large) jump from “We have no idea how they moved this crap” to “Therefore it must have been through the aid of extraterrestrials.” I think there are far too many questions to address before we land on the ETH, where ancient cultures and their development are concerned.

What I think is more probable is that what we claim to know about our history, is terribly incomplete (something that is proven each time a lost city or culture is discovered). WE base our current version history on what has been previously discovered and what information those discoveries have relayed to us. Perhaps when we begin to add to that the newer discoveries, a more thorough picture of humanity’s past will come into view — and maybe that picture will give more plausible, terrestrial explanations to certain mysteries.

I’m not completely dismissing the possibility of extraterrestrials having visited us in the distant past, or that they may have helped us along with some kind of technological kick-in-the-ass. I’m just not too sure we can safely leap to that as an explanation just yet.
Shadowclasper

for once someone who says “hey, the ancient peoples might have just done this on their own!” I despise the idea that aliens must have helped build this stuff… humans are smart creatures -.- the egyptians probably knew ATLEAST the same information that Newton did on how things fall and such… people of the period CERTAINLY knew that the earth was round, somehow I doubt they’re missing the major theories and equations necessary for major undertakings and architecture

On that note… just because we don’t KNOW about a method to cut stone perfectly smooth that they could have used doesn’t mean one didn’t exist >>; it’s unlikely we’ll ever discover it on our own simply because Necessity is the Mother of Invention. We HAVE the method to cut stone perfectly smooth NOW, just like we’ll likely NEVER discover how greek fire worked because we HAVE napalm now… we do not HAVE the limitations necessary to force us to make what ancient people’s did or invent their methods over again, we have more efficent ways. Proof of this is simple. Efficent methods SURVIVE. They don’t get forgotten, ever. Not even when civilization collapses really. I can bet someone out there is going to remeber how to make batteries and light bulbs should the nukes ever start flying and make new ones. Even if they don’t, the archeological evidence will remain. Now, we can assume that they didn’t have TOOLS that were more efficent than our own, thus we can assume it was a special METHOD to processing and cutting the stone, possibly certain chemicals brewed from animal and plant parts that we’re NEVER going to think of combining simply because there’s no NEED to do so. >> Just because we can’t imagine NOW how they did it, doesn’t mean THEY couldn’t imagine how to overcome their limitations without electricity, combustion-engines, and computers
Cpl1318

Has anyone ever thought that they put up the walls first.carved all the carvings in broad daylight and then added the next floor or roof

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