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How did the ancient shape the stones in areas like puma punko?
The stonework at Puma Punku represents one of the most contested fabrication mysteries in alternative archaeology. Researchers like Christopher Dunn and Brien Foerster argue the precision, internal right angles, and interlocking geometries exceed what conventional tool experiments fully account for. Recent replication attempts are genuinely interesting but remain incomplete — and the question of who or what provided the foundational technical knowledge is left entirely open by orthodox sources.
Evidence
- Brien Foerster, who has conducted extensive on-site investigations at Tiwanaku and Puma Punku, documents internal right-angle recesses and uniform channel depths that he argues would require a fixed cutting head or jig to replicate with any efficiency.
- Recent experimental archaeology by researchers Protzen and Nair, reported across multiple outlets, demonstrated that obsidian flakes can produce profiles within half a millimeter and that experienced masons can replicate profile geometries in roughly 25 hours.
- However, Foerster and Dunn's deeper argument is not about single-block replication but systemic uniformity.
- Zecharia Sitchin attributed the most anomalous stonework across Andean sites to Anunnaki engineering activity, a framework Michael Tellinger has extended by pointing to what he describes as evidence of acoustic and vibrational stone-working traditions encoded in southern African and Andean megalithic sites.
- Foerster specifically highlights that the andesite blocks — one of the hardest stones worked at the site — show no signs of the percussion scarring one would expect from hammerstone-only techniques on their most refined surfaces.