an overlooked inca wonder

Archaeology ^ | April 5, 2016 | Eric A. Powell

[tet68]

Remnants of the legendary “Great Leap Forward”.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Peru has a lot of stuff like this. Perhaps even more impressive are the subterranean water holes of the harsh Nazca desert.

(pictures)

http://i.imgur.com/SazFHME.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/gBxvAkL.jpg

You only really see how impressive with a video made inside the holes.

(video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N14Q-9jpAPM

[Telepathic Intruder]

I’ve also heard that mythical Atlantis might not have been an island, but a global coastal civilization during the ice age. The interiors of most continents would have been glacial, with the inhabitable areas on the continental shelves that are now underwater, since ocean levels were lower then. There is also evidence of large stone structures off the coasts of Europe and South America that appear to be man made. When the ice age melted, the rising of ocean level might have occurred as a chain reaction instead of taking place slowly. The catastrophe might not have allowed them time to transition farther inland.

[Vermont Lt]

I understand that. But I am not sure why they need so many? Did everyone show up at once with their produce? That would be some rotten produce by the time they were finished.

That’s what got me thinking about other uses. Without knowing what was around at the time makes that almost impossible to do from New England.

[Red Badger]

I saw the show that was mentioned in the article. I had never heard of these holes, and neither, apparently had the professor, even though he had done excavations just a few miles away.

As the article points out, these holes look very similar to the groupings of marks on boards that the Incan IRS used in other places to collect taxes. Kind of like a Cribbage Board for revenue.

Look around that area, and what do you see? NOTHING! No trees for miles, no vegetation nearby. So no local materials to make a Cribbage Board.

So the local Incan IRS officers used the next best thing, rocks and dirt.

We don’t know what their volume measures were called (we do know their length and distance units), like bushel, peck, quart and gallon, but these pits very nearly match up in size to about 5-7 bushels volume, which would be a fairly good tribute or tax, depending on your farm plots. ...........

[SteveH]

thanks

one good urn deserves another

lol

[MattinNJ]

Agreed. The resulting tsunami from the flash melting of ice caps would have wiped out coastal cities and any boats at sea. Sea levels would have risen dramatically