Ancient Americas: the South American Stonehenge
The Ancients
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The Origins of Tuanaku
When do we think Tuanaku starts coming about? What do we know about this settlement's earlier history, the origins of Tuanaku? The best hard data when it comes to excavations and carbon dating, first century, we have something substantial, a temple, but small. There are no quarries, there's no river, there's nothing that you suspect a city would be there because they're taking advantage of X or some type of trade pattern like anywhere else in the world. It is cold, it is high up, it is equidistant from anything of value. Could it be that these people decided to create this settlement here of all places because of those mountains in the
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