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Ancient Americas: the South American Stonehenge

The Ancients

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How to Get Monoliths to Tiwonaco From Far Away Sources

How do we think they got it across the lake that's a question that I asked many years ago and it ended up becoming almost randomly a very interesting experiment. We used traditional lake technology of watercraft to tor her reeds and see if we can move a multi-ton stone from one side to another. It took about three months of an extended family putting it together some additional work on it and of course us trying to sail this thing but once you got the method down you could have brought stones back and forth using this reed boat technology quite feasible, he says.

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