Tiahuanco, page

*waves hands about and magically resurrects a very dead thread from the grave* (I even tagged it, too )

A few quick links for background info:

www.crystalinks.com...
gosouthamerica.about.com...
en.wikipedia.org...

I just learned of the existence of Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) tonight, while watching a UFO documentary, strangely enough. The claim was that ancient peoples could not have built the magnificent and massive structures seen at Tiahuanaco. The altitude is something like 12000 feet above sea level, meaning that it would be difficult to live there, since crops wouldn't grow well in the area. Some of the blocks used in construction are heavier than the blocks in the Egyptian pyramids; how did they get to that height? I personally have no idea how it was done.

I had never heard of Tiahuanaco, and I consider myself reasonably well informed in matters of history, so my guess is that it might be new to a bunch of members here, too.

Does anyone know more about this? Are there some good books on the subject? I'd be interested in learning more about Tiahuanaco, if anyone has any info...

A link to a discussion about Hancocks opinions about the city

The city

Needless to say Hancock uses a lot of things out of context and belittles the actual studies done on the site.

reply to post by dacallahan

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You have to have a very loose definition of the word "fact" in order to apply it to Graham Hancock. Or Zechariah Sitchen. Or any of that crowd. They are to history what the Weekly World Sun is to newspaper.

Tiahuanaco was built by a pre-Inca society of Native Americans. It wasn't tens of thousands of years ago, it rose at around the same time Hannibal was getting his butt kicked by Rome. It's a spectacular place, but it was built by humans, with human methods. Not just by hte locas, but also by later explorers who wanted to "improve" on the design. While I understand that pseudoarchaology simply can't wrap its head around the noton of brown people doing anything without alien overlords or lost caucasians from Atlantis teaching them how, but fact is... The people who lived here were the people who built it, and the people who lived here were not aliens, Atlanteans, the lost tribe of Israel, or a colony from Mu. They were the ancestors of the Inca people.

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