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So we're just here in the Silostani Museum.
It's got some very interesting artifacts...

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Most importantly it has three very
interesting elongated skulls.

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What era they come from is unknown but it
could have been the Queer which would have...

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It could have been even before that which is
quite likely because the Tiwanakan and the...

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Sometime BC, we're not sure exactly when.

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So they were probably responsible for the
builders of this incredible megalithic sit...

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And this is actually described as Tiwanaku
400 to 1100 AD and also the, was it, Queer...

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So they're just put in everything there from
the last couple of thousand years and hopi...

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But it could easily be that some of these
artifacts are much older and that they're...

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Behind me here there's some examples of some
lithic stonework from Silostani.

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There are examples of quite large statues,
even one that is touching his navel which ...

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Most importantly the terraces which was some
kind of fertility totem.

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It looks very much like a Tiki statue as we
saw.

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And here are some other examples of stonework
that were found at Silostani.

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They could be even 8000 years old.

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This is how old the site goes back.

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Whether there was any stone constructions
here then is unknown.

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But it does give a clue that this was a very
sacred place for a very, very long time.

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Used by the Pukura culture, the Tiwanakans,
the Koya, the Incans and so on and so fort...

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So these are just some examples of the small
bits of stonework that was left by various...

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This was found in terraces somewhere at
Silostani.

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This is some kind of standing statue with an
arm coming down like here.

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Reaching the area of the navel.

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And the other arm going around the back.

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The head is obviously missing.

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This was presumably standing somewhere.

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And I would say this has great similarities
to the so-called Urfa Man.

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Which was a life-size statue in stone found
in the city of Shanglurfa.

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Beginning in the 1990s if I remember rightly.

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And it too has an arm reaching around for the
navel.

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But the other second arm comes around as
well.

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And it also has this sort of plug-like base
here without the legs exactly the same.

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Although that does have a proper head and the
eyes are made of obsidian.

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Now that dates to around 9000 BC.

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What this dates to is obviously a complete
mystery.

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But I mean I don't think we should ever
discount the fact that this could be sever...

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And look at the type of stone.

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It's very different to these other darker
basalt ones.

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I mean I don't know exactly what it is.

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It's probably a type of limestone.

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But it's a limestone with a load of pieces of
other rock inside it.

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So you know this is obviously quite different
to that rock.

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And it may not even be indigenous. Who knows.

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But I mean it's very fascinating.

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I mean you know just the fact that it's so
warm gives it an extreme age.

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An incredibly extreme age.

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And in the context of these other stones with
the 3D lizards on them.

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Possibly pumas and other type of creatures.

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All of these obviously reflect the ideas that
are present at Quebec Catape between 9500 ...

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It's got llamas on it this one.

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It's just so weird isn't it. I mean just how
old are these things.

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There's something there as well.

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And what the hell is that?

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It looks like some kind of totem.

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Somebody else has tried to move it as well.

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Oh that's like an Easter egg in the lower
one.

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It is like a little statue.

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Let's see if we can have a look at it.

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It does, it has the impression of being a
statue.

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There's no question about that.

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The wide base being the body.

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It's where the hips and legs area.

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Obviously the upper part here being the body.

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Possibly the arms coming around here.

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You know or this is the body and that is the
head.

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And it's wearing some kind of headdress.

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That's the first impression of that.

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That's quite fascinating as well.

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We can't actually make a hole and put it up
right now.

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We could.

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With the permission of the owners.

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Well Brian already talked to us.

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I wonder where the head is.

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It's not here.

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They dug it up and found it with the head
missing.

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All I can say is that they are so cool.

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Because that is so similar to artifacts found
at Gobekli Tapay.

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It's a bit of a mystery.

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I don't know if it's a statue or a statue.

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But it's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It's a statue.

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It doesn't look like it was a burial as in
somebody dug, you know, the dirt was dug o...

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It's like a mud wave just suddenly went boom
and just shattered everything.

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All the ceramics, all the bones.

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What do you think that is?

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I don't know. It's probably part of a bowl
but whoever made it was good.

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Oh excellent. Inca.

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That's Inca.

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Oh wow.

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Very nice.

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Look at the necklace.

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Oh.

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You can't believe it.

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It's gold.

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Oh does it? Yeah.

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Only the best ceramics had gold flecks in
them.

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So we're just outside the museum of Silestani
and you can see these vans behind me.

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This beetle car.

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This is where many of the very important
stones that were found within the Chalpers...

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Kind of to rot really. We uprooted one of
them.

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We bought the what looks like a tiki statue
with the hand covering over the belly and ...

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That's now being pulled out of the ground
thanks to Kurt who's put it upright.

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And you can clearly see as with Katimbo and
on some of the Chalpers still at Silestani...

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And at many other places around the world.

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And it's known that the area here goes back
to 8,000 years ago.

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6,000 BC was the first settlement at
Silestani with various cultures coming...

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Including the Tiwanakans, the Pukura and many
other different cultures.

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So it's a very interesting site.

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Very interesting that you still see some of
the stones here.

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Not in situ. They've been moved outside the
museum and kind of left to rot.

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But hopefully one day they'll be in the
museum and revered as they should be.

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