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So we're just up here at the square Chulpa at Silastani.

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We just had a good look around it and found a lot of evidence of extreme antiquity and

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also extreme destruction.

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So there could have been some kind of cataclysm here many thousands of years ago, or even

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just a couple of thousand years ago, but it's officially supposed to be Incan Chulpa, this

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one, although there are Koya Chulpas and possibly Pukara Chulpas as well, these three to three

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or four different cultures that existed around in this area.

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But the fact that there's extreme lichen on some of the stones and the fact that there's

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a huge cataclysm and the technique is very similar to Easter Island and you can see

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the style sequences like completely in tune with that.

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So it's a real mystery Silastani, but we're going to have a good look around and see

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what else we can find.

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The sun has revealed a shape just here though.

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Something going on there.

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It could be some kind of llama, it could just be a protrusion.

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There's other protrusions along here.

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It looks like something going on there.

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A great protrusion knob up there.

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There's a definite shape here, something going on here.

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Just behind me is the famous square chulpa here at Silastani and you can see behind

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me also there's some great blocks that have almost been exploded or pushed away, heading

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over in that direction.

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This is really interesting because you can see the mortise and tenon joints which look

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just like the ones you find at Stonehenge with the lintels and the uprights.

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And you do find that in other areas as well, but here it's particularly noticeable.

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And you find that on the round towers and the square tower here.

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The other thing about this one is that it looks just like Vinapu or Vinapu on Easter

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Island where the Moai stand on and you get a very similar type of rock.

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It's sort of a volcanic, sort of basalt rock, almost tuft-like in places.

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But there's been obviously some kind of cataclysm here for this to be like this.

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But all the knobs that are on here are partly the design which we find at other places

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but some of them are actually mortise and tenon joints.

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So it's hard to know what's what now because it's so badly damaged.

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These particular ones on this block, the Vinapu style square chulpa look like, they're kind

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of keyboard buttons we find at Oean Te Tambo, Machu Picchu and other places.

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Whereas these ones look more like mortise and tenon joints.

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Although they do look like some of the knobs you do find around Peru as well.

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You can see like the, also you get this effect here where you have this shallow sort of

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bowl in the rocks.

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And this is often you have the opposite, like a mortise and tenon, a very sort of low mortise

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and tenon joint that hold the rocks together.

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And there you've got some very interesting features on this rock as well.

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You can just see, well these are very strange, these could just be very badly weathered.

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And there we have a couple of other knobs or possibly mortise and tenon joints.

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This could also be a serpent, some kind of serpent on the side of one of the rocks at

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the square chulpa.

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Very interesting.

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It does appear that these stones here have come out of the square chulpa over there,

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which is a good 150 feet away, maybe 200 feet.

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They've obviously been thrown out of the chulpa in this direction, heading towards

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the end of the peninsula here.

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How on earth could that have happened?

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How on earth could such a powerful force have moved these stones?

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So far away, from there.

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So look at the possible theory that what this was, was not a tomb originally for some ruler,

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but it was an acoustic generator.

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If you look at the shape, it flares out from the bottom to the top, which doesn't make

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good building sense, but the interior, there is an entrance, and the interior is beehive

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shape.

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The stone in the core is called andesite or diorite, which is very hard, and then it's

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quite densely packed in there with white clay, which is from another area.

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It's not from this location.

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So if you had a tone or a sound on the inside, that sound could have been enhanced by the

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denseness of the diorite rock, with to some degree the clay acting as insulation.

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Then you have an empty or hollow layer, and the structure is surrounded by basalt, a

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different stone, not as dense, and those divots you see in it could, again, have possibly

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enhanced sound.

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But for what reason?

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So what engineers have told us when they look at these is they notice that there is damage

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mainly to the northwest side of each of these chupa.

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It doesn't matter where on this plateau you look, it's always to the northwest side.

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So the conventional story is that the first Spanish came here and they started taking

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them apart for building material, but why would you take one side off like that?

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The engineers believe, or at least some of them believe, that these were actually acoustic

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generators of some kind, and you have different kinds of stone.

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The core is a diorite or andesite.

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It's very dense.

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If you take two of them and strike them together, they make a sound, a tone, a musical note.

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The interior is hollow, and again, it's in an acoustic beehive kind of shape.

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So it's possible that somehow there was an energy being generated in the center of it,

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and going up, the diorite or andesite has been packed in with a white clay from some

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other part of the country.

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It's not from here.

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That that may have acted like some kind of insulator.

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And then the energy or sound would go through that stone, again, because of the beehive

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shape, and that's why they were hollow, because the sound would then come out through the

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top.

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What's curious is the external stone is always basalt, so you always have an andesite or

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diorite core, and then a basalt exterior, and the tops of them, especially this one,

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you can notice that there's a curve to them, which again, it looks like the end of a,

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not a flute, but of a recorder that you play.

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So the theory is that at some point in time, after they were constructed, there was a

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massive energetic event that caused these to basically explode, for lack of a better

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word, but the large square one that's over on the left-hand side, some of those stones

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have been thrown hundreds of feet away.

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It's unlikely that they were taken down and rolled.

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They form a line that goes at least 100, if not 200 meters.

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Yeah, and also all the fill, like the fill you see in the cracks, that's been done recently.

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That's the unfortunate thing, when they try to restore something, they disregard the

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fact that this was at one time super tightly fitting together.

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The sound is enhanced in the interior.

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So if this tower was tuned to a specific vibration, probably a natural vibration,

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then that sound or that vibration would be enhanced and probably go up the chulpa, and

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I don't know whether the sound or vibration was meant to come out or just be concentrated

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inside the structure.

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What we know from local farmers is that all of the buildings they have on their farms

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are square, except where they store seeds, and that's a round building.

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And when we asked this old farmer, why is this round compared to the square ones, he

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said, well, because of the wind and the air here, a round building helps to dry the seed.

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But then he also said, my grandfather told me that it also energizes the seed for a

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better crop next year.

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So they may have simply have been built to enhance seeds for agriculture, which is pragmatic,

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or possibly as well, or for accessing higher conscious levels of the mind.

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But when they were built, nobody actually knows.

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They're attributed to the Inca, but the Inca did not build these.

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So we're just here at one of the main round towers at Silestani.

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We're here at just the right time of year, around the winter solstice, around midday,

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and we can see this wonderful lizard carving on the side of the chulpa on a curved massive

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basalt bit of rock, very high up.

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It's a very large lizard, and it's very similar to the ones outside the museum that have

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been kind of left to rot, really.

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It's the same design.

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It's kind of flat, but it's 3D.

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So it's classic relief carving, similar and almost exactly, in fact, to what we find

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at Gebekli Tepe in ancient Turkey.

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So there's a lot of similarities we're finding here with the stonework and everything else.

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This is really one of the key aspects of these sites here in Peru, is that you can't help

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but notice the similarities between here and Gebekli Tepe in Turkey.

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And even Aleja Hoyak and Hatusa as well have the polygonal puffy stonework.

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And so we have to question, was there cross-cultural contact here?

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Because there's a high technology, not just in the stonework, but in the acoustics, in

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the telluric currents, and in the earth energies and the consciousness effects that they were

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working with, as Brian has been explaining.

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And so it compels me that there needs to be a proper analysis, maybe an academic analysis

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of the connections between these two cultures in southeast Turkey and Lebanon and the Middle

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East and here in South America, especially when you consider the Fuente Magna Bole,

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has Sumerian script on it and Proto-Sumerian mixed with Amara.

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It's like the Rosetta stone of the Andes.

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And so this is just one example of many of the similarities and the connections we find,

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and that is one of the themes of this trip we're on, trying to find the connections

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between these great ancient cultures.

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It's very close to the main chopper here.

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In this area, we find there's evidence that gold was found here in 1971 by archaeologist

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Arturo Ruiz Estrada.

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520 objects were found made of beautiful, perfect gold, and they've been hidden under

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here, actually underneath these rocks, probably by the Inca at the time who were controlling

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the area in the 1500s and 1600s.

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And it's an incredible achievement really, because it just proves that there was gold

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production here, probably from the Puno area where the gold came from.

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Also silver and lapis lazuli and other precious stones.

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So here was a very important site, and these are probably, you know, most likely at some

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point used as burial chambers by the Koya and the Inca, even though they're probably,

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I think, built along before then as acoustic technology towers of some sort.

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So there's a lot going on here, a lot of different elements, but the fact they found

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almost four kilos of gold, which is incredible, and the Spanish never found it.

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So you hid it well, well done.

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You see some high technology stonework here with the carvings and the beautiful elements

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here with the holes in, and the mortise and tenon joints.

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They almost look, as Brian explained, they look like they were two hollows

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connected together for some acoustic purpose.

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Whether they use keystone cuts is unknown.

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We haven't found any keystone cut marks here, but it wouldn't surprise me if they did use

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metal because they were known to use it all over this part of South America.

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This tower here, which is one of the so-called Inca towers, you can see a beautiful serpent

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carving on the top level.

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Very similar to what we find at Katimbo and other sites around Cusco.

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This is why I think these have been attributed to the Inca, because it's thought the Inca

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actually built the Coquicancha and Saxo-Womara, although it's quite well known now that they

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didn't and it was a much earlier culture and they just discovered it.

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So I postulate, and many others do, that this brilliant stonework, this amazing carving,

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is of very high antiquity.

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So on the steps up to Silistane we find this beautiful spiral carving with a strange kind

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of triangle underneath it.

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I wonder if this represents quite possibly some solar movement of the sun throughout the year.

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This looks like it's in situ on the original steps leading up.

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Okay, we've got here, cut into the bedrock, a hole which is probably about 14-15 inches

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in diameter.

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There also seems to be other scoops to the side.

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This is very similar to the sort of holes that you find at Göbekli Tepe, Karahen Tepe

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and these early proto-neolithic sites in South East Turkey.

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Now exactly what they've been used for is a mystery.

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Some people speculate that they were used to contain liquid or grain or something like this

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or they might have some kind of symbolic value, maybe releasing energy from the earth itself.

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But sometimes when you find them, particularly at Karahen, they're generally always in pairs,

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suggesting they're almost like eyes looking up at you.

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But once again, this is yet another link to the culture of Göbekli Tepe.

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So perhaps that statue could have stood in there.

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It's possible.

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It looks almost the right size, doesn't it?

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So Andrew just found another snake on the stone here.

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It looks like it's got some kind of head on it.

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These are kind of the signatures you also see at Tiwanaku, so

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it's interesting to see the slightly different carving rather than...

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What do you think it is?

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It's like an eye.

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It's like an Egyptian eye like that.

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Kind of a strange protrusion on this rock.

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Like a weird kind of keyboard button or something.

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I'm not sure what that is, but that is quite strange and interesting.

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Could be part of another relief carving of some sort.

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At the top of this tower, we do find some, what looks like some kind of protrusion

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and some kind of shape there.

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Quite sure what's going to...

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Supposed to be serpents on it, but we can't see them clearly

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because they could be in the shaded part.

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And yet another serpent on the second level up of this so-called Inka Chupa.

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This one's got on a third level up.

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It seems to have several of these protrusions or knobs sticking out.

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Not much else really.

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There's some very strange carvings on it, but nothing that looks animal-like

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that we can see from this angle anyway.

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Let's take a look around it.

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See what else we can see.

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On the fourth level there, we've got some kind of protrusion,

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some keyboard button or knobs or whatever they're called sticking out.

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Round here on the dark side of the Chupa.

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Not really too much going on.

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There's an interesting entrance there.

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Very polygonal blocks making it up.

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And more protrusions on the side here.

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These are all in the shade.

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There is some kind of feature here, but I can't really see it in this light.

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It's all about the light.

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These are very extreme

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protrusions as you can see on the side here sticking out.

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This is quite strange.

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There's like a ramp leading up to a Chupa with this massive block

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and then a small Chupa in the end.

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That looks like it's come off a Chupa.

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There's not as much carving on it.

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It looks slightly rounded, but not particularly.

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I mean just walk around the other side of the Chupa, the one with the great stones.

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That great stone is actually this stone here.

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This is the other side of it.

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And to me that looks like it is part of a very large Chupa.

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You can see this is one of the joints in the stone.

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So this is the Andesite Quarry with some megalithomaniacs all over it.

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You can just see some of the channels cut, the blocks and the protrusions sticking out on them.

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Absolutely fascinating place, the birthplace of the temple.

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So we found the Andesite Quarry.

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Here's one block that's still embedded in the bedrock.

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It's got a couple of the protrusions on it.

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This one as well looks like it's started to be worked.

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There's various other ones.

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Most interesting so far as well as finding holes like this and cuts like that

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are these scoop marks which look like the scoop,

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not dissimilar to the scoop marks we saw at Machu Picchu and other places.

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Very interesting.

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You see the way the channel has been cut here as well.

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Let's have a close-up of this, have a quick look.

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You've got some sort of cut marks, large cut marks there and another one there.

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But it doesn't look like it's been just scooped out.

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It's really interesting.

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Another interesting feature is here.

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So this has just been scooped out.

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The channels cut throughout the bedrock.

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Well Brian just said there's no bass out here.

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This is the Andesite quarry.

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So where on earth did the bass out come from?

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It's all over the quarry here.

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We do find evidence of cutting out the bedrock.

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It's fine examples actually.

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And we must remember this is Andesite.

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This is extremely tough stone.

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Incredibly hard.

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Here's like a curved piece here.

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Here's another piece here with two protrusions on them still.

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Very rough but you can still see them.

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So maybe this is, as I've suggested before,

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actually the birthplace of the temple.

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This is a sacred site in itself.

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The quarry is like the forgotten stones, the ones left here.

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Embued with power but not finished.

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Here we have some more scoops on the rock.

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Very interesting little place.

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Up here we see more protrusions or knobs sticking out of the rock.

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This is a very large one here.

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But why is it so rough?

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It kind of removes the idea that these knobs

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actually for moving the rock,

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but this is on top.

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How would that be any use?

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It wouldn't make any sense.

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There's a top of these ones here as well.

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That's how the channel cut right through it there as well, through solid andesite.

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Incredibly hard rock.

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You see it there, all the way through that rock.

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So this one here has protrusions on both sides of it.

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One of them is in the shade, the other one's

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in the light.

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This is a classic example of one of the stones left in the quarry

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with the great protrusions sticking out of it.

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Not too much shaping has been done on it, but it's a beautiful piece nonetheless.

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So the weathering on this looks extremely ancient.

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You have the lichen,

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you have the extreme weathering on this extremely hard rock, this andesite rock,

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with these protrusions that look like they've been damaged over thousands of years.

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This does not look like it's 500 years old.

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Just at the very end of the peninsula at Silestani, there's a bit of red tufa,

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which I don't know how on earth that got here,

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whether it forms naturally in some area nearby, some volcanic area.

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But this is the same type of rock you find on the

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Easter Island Moai, on the top knots, on the hats.

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Fascinating.

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This freestanding monolith is called Huwakasea,

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and you can see on the side of it looks like it's got a serpent relief carving on it.

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What's interesting is that it could be anthropomorphic,

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it could show a kind of human form.

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It's been very badly weathered.

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What's very interesting with this standing stone is here at Silestani.

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It's sort of out of place really with the other parts of the site, but fascinating nonetheless.

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And they say it's a Pukara style stone,

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which is very interesting because they were around potentially

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a couple of thousand years ago.

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So they were marking their spot, their omphali,

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their axis mundi with this sacred temple site of Silestani.