Puma Punku is a set of ruins in Bolivia, not well known outside of archaeologist and UFOlogist circles. Why have these stones attracted two seemingly opposite groups?
The ruins are what is left of the Pumapunku pyramid, a temple that stood at least 56 feet tall. It is located in Tiahuanaco, near Lake Titicaca, a region associated with pre-Incan culture. Archaeologists believe the temple may have been built for worshipping the creation god Viracocha, but have no definitive evidence either way.
But the real mystery lies in how Puma Punku was built. Many of the blocks weighed 200 tons, with one even weighing in at 450 tons! How were these blocks brought to a plateau 13,000 feet high? While Stonehenge’s method is often explained as stones being rolled on tree trunks, the tribe would have had no access to trees on the barren plateau. The wheel had supposedly not been invented by that point, leaving archaeologists without an explanation.
Once the stones were brought to the site, they were cut so precisely that they could be fit together like puzzle pieces.
Some of these stones have perfectly straight grooves in them that are only 1 cm deep. Note the sets of equi-distant holes that were drilled in the picture below. If the stones are made of the hardest granite there is, how could the tribe have possible put these markings into the stones? What tools did they have available to them, and where did they come from?
UFO and alien experts believe the people who built these stones had contact with extraterrestrial beings. This is often referred to as the “ancient astronaut theory”. These beings would have either completely built the temple themselves, or assisted the humans in building it by providing instruction and advanced tools.
Scientists call these theories bunk, but cannot provide any better explanation for how primitive humans fit 200-ton stones together or planned the intricate process without the ability to read or write.
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As long as they were able to talk to one another then they also had a means of communication sufficient to build these structures. The problem really lies with the technology necessary; it simply was not available as far as we know. I've seen these blocks and absolutely convinced they were tooled with some advanced method or history lost to us.
South America contains some real mysteries that point to an advanced civilization in pre-history. As far as the nay-sayers and pooh-poohers, they may as well go back to laughing at people like Columbus and Darwin, a spherical earth revolving around the sun, flight and travel beneath the sea. They are simply taking the place of the small minds who came before and left this a legacy of foolish doubt for them to take up.
I call this Bill Nye Seth Shostak-ism after two scientists who openly laugh at theories such as discussed here. Their response to these ideas are silly and childish mainly because they cannot offer anything plausible on their own; they cannot even discuss it without launching into 3rd grade put downs. Scientists as dopes.
I liked your explanation, it's plausible and thought out. I just imagine it would have been impossibly long to accomplish.
Have you ever tried to drill a hole in oak? with a steel drill by hand or even in a drill press? I doubt you could make it straight? Go to a hardware store and get some things and try. Then reply to us and tell us they drilled a hole in a materal as hard as diamond with a stick with rock glued to it… lmao, idiots
Stop… "It is much more logical to assume that the cuts were made by tools made with diorite." Did we just find diorite tools already fashioned lying around or were we forced to fashion the tools from, perhaps you could demonstrate making the tools starting with 2 hunks of diorite…
Finally somebody who addressed the fact that this structure was being built so it could not be torn/knocked down.
I am more interested in the why. What was the reason to build this structure that would last this long? A people/race with the knowledge to work with this material could have worked with many other materials that would have lasted longer than their generation and many more to come. What was this structure meant to be? Why the fear of it being knocked/torn down?
It is said the pyramids were made to house knowledge/records; was puma punku meant as a storage facility for knowledge? Or was it meant to store dangerous materials like a nuclear waste facility or weapons magazine? Is it possible that these materials caused destruction before the housing was completed?
Are you implying that the people who built Puma Punku didn't believe that the world was round? What does comparing modern ignorance with ancient beliefs have to do with ancient man designing and building puma punku?
Try making a blueprint of that place to inform others how to build it without geography, let alone a writing system. These people had NO writing system!