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Who buildt Macu pitchu?
The Inca-built consensus is challenged on multiple fronts: pre-Inca stonework signatures, anomalous precision, and a possible astronomical alignment framework far older than Pachacuti's reign. Alternative researchers argue the Inca inherited and adapted a site whose foundational stones predate them by centuries if not millennia.
Evidence
- Graham Hancock and Randall Carlson have both contextualised these Andean anomalies within a post-catastrophe civilisational reset framework: a pre-12,800 BP maritime culture seeded advanced construction knowledge globally, with Andean sites preserving its most visible remnants.
- Foerster notes that some granite blocks show a vitrified, almost melted surface quality he associates with a lost high-heat or vibrational technology that no known Inca tool explains.
- Hancock's on-site investigations, documented in Fingerprints of the Gods, flagged the astronomical alignments at Machu Picchu — particularly its Intihuatana stone — as encoding solar and stellar knowledge inconsistent with a purely fifteenth-century religious monument.