# Puma Punku **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 26, 2019, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puma-punku/828426 "2019-01-26T00:03:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ohiomstr2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/82dd89/32.png) [@ohiomstr2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ohiomstr2)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puma-punku/828426/21 "2019-02-05T03:42:34Z")
> **[The Non-Mystery of Puma Punku](https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4202)** > > Though some claim the stone structures at Puma Punku were alien, archaeologists find no real mysteries there. > **[On Reconstructing Tiwanaku Architecture](https://online.ucpress.edu/jsah/article-abstract/59/3/358/59330/On-Reconstructing-Tiwanaku-Architecture?redirectedFrom=fulltext)** > > The site of Tiwanaku is thought of as the center of a civilization of the same name that exerted its influence over the southern Andean region from around 300 B. C. when it emerged to about A. D. 1100 when it collapsed. The architecture of Tiwanaku... [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as\_sdt=0%2C23&q=puma+punku&oq=puma+#](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C23&q=puma+punku&oq=puma+#) > **[ancient lifting techniques - Bing](https://www.bing.com/search?q=ancient%2Blifting%2Btechniques&PC=MOZB&first=11&FORM=PORE)** > > Intelligent search from Bing makes it easier to quickly find what you’re looking for and rewards you. [https://www.ancientaliensdebunked.com/puma-punku#](https://www.ancientaliensdebunked.com/puma-punku#)! These should suffice to start a journey into the actual evidence surrounding the builders of these amazing structures. As for antidilluvian civilizations and extraterrestrial beings, to paraphrase Kenneth Humphreys, it isn’t true, it isn’t history. It’s more astounding rubbish from pseudohistory. ---
**Author:** ![ohiomstr2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/82dd89/32.png) [@ohiomstr2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ohiomstr2)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puma-punku/828426/22 "2019-02-05T03:58:08Z")
> **[The Non-Mystery of Puma Punku](https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4202)** > > Though some claim the stone structures at Puma Punku were alien, archaeologists find no real mysteries there. > **[On Reconstructing Tiwanaku Architecture](https://online.ucpress.edu/jsah/article-abstract/59/3/358/59330/On-Reconstructing-Tiwanaku-Architecture?redirectedFrom=fulltext)** > > The site of Tiwanaku is thought of as the center of a civilization of the same name that exerted its influence over the southern Andean region from around 300 B. C. when it emerged to about A. D. 1100 when it collapsed. The architecture of Tiwanaku... [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as\_sdt=0%2C23&q=puma+punku&oq=puma+#](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C23&q=puma+punku&oq=puma+#) > **[ancients lifting techniques - Bing](https://www.bing.com/search?q=ancients%2Blifting%2Btechniques&PC=MOZB&first=11&FORM=PORE)** > > Intelligent search from Bing makes it easier to quickly find what you’re looking for and rewards you. [https://www.ancientaliensdebunked.com/puma-punku#](https://www.ancientaliensdebunked.com/puma-punku#)! These should suffice to start a journey into the actual evidence surrounding the builders of these amazing structures. As for antidilluvian civilizations and extraterrestrial beings, to paraphrase Kenneth Humphreys, it isn’t true, it isn’t history. It’s more astounding rubbish from pseudo science. ---
**Author:** ![ohiomstr2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/82dd89/32.png) [@ohiomstr2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ohiomstr2)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puma-punku/828426/23 "2019-02-05T03:59:31Z")
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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puma-punku/828426/24 "2019-02-05T04:14:07Z")
I think _most_ ancient civilisations really _were_ against floods. Except the Egyptians. Now antediluvian civilisation, that’s rubbish. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puma-punku/828426.md?page=1)