Pumapunku in Bolivia: radiocarbon evidence dates its initial construction to about AD 536–600, although Arthur Posnansky argued for an age of as much as 17,000 years using archaeoastronomy. The complex contains precisely fitted andesite blocks, including H-shaped recesses and other geometric cuts; some joints are described as too tight for a razor blade. The video argues that the precision would be nearly impossible to reproduce, but experimental archaeology shows the stonework can be produced with stone tools and abrasives. Pumapunku had largely been abandoned before the Incas arrived in the 15th century, and no surviving written record identifies its builders or dates its construction.
Pumapunku’s dating controversy and precision-cut stonework
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Key facts
- Radiocarbon evidence dates Pumapunku’s initial construction to about AD 536–600; construction continued for centuries.
- Arthur Posnansky, an Austrian archaeologist and engineer, argued that the complex was as much as 17,000 years old on archaeoastronomic grounds. That date has not been accepted.
- The best-known Pumapunku blocks are cut andesite, a volcanic rock; “granite and diorite” is not an accurate blanket description of Pumapunku’s structures.
- Some joints are described as too tight for a razor blade to pass.
- The famous blocks have H-shaped recesses, channels and other geometric cuts; they are not a uniform series of circular drill holes of identical size and depth.
- Archaeological and experimental work indicates the blocks could have been shaped with stone tools and abrasives. The claim that modern experts consider the work nearly impossible to reproduce is false.
- Pumapunku had largely been abandoned before the Incas reached Tiwanaku in the 15th century. No surviving written record identifies its builders or gives a construction date.
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