Puma Punku: Precision Stonework and a Civilization’s Lost Technical Memory
At about 3,850 metres on Bolivia’s Altiplano, near Lake Titicaca, a broken stone platform sits among huge blocks. This is Puma Punku, a temple complex within the city of Tiwanaku. Large sandstone slabs lie beside dark volcanic andesite blocks. Andesite is a hard volcanic rock. Many surviving pieces still show straight edges, right angles, deep grooves, drilled holes, and repeated H-shaped forms.
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At about 3,850 metres on Bolivia’s Altiplano, near Lake Titicaca, a broken stone platform sits among huge blocks. This is Puma Punku, a temple complex within the city of Tiwanaku. Large sandstone slabs lie beside dark volcanic andesite blocks. Andesite is a hard volcanic rock. Many surviving pieces still show straight edges, right angles, deep grooves, drilled holes, and repeated H-shaped forms.
At about 3,850 metres on Bolivia’s Altiplano, near Lake Titicaca, a broken stone platform sits among huge blocks. This is Puma Punku, a temple complex within the city of Tiwanaku. Large sandstone slabs lie beside dark volcanic andesite blocks. Andesite is a hard volcanic rock. Many surviving pieces still show straight edges, right angles, deep grooves, drilled holes, and repeated H-shaped forms.
At about 3,850 metres on Bolivia’s Altiplano, near Lake Titicaca, a broken stone platform sits among huge blocks. This is Puma Punku, a temple complex within the city of Tiwanaku. Large sandstone slabs lie beside dark volcanic andesite blocks. Andesite is a hard volcanic rock. Many surviving pieces still show straight edges, right angles, deep grooves, drilled holes, and repeated H-shaped forms.
At about 3,850 metres on Bolivia’s Altiplano, near Lake Titicaca, a broken stone platform sits among huge blocks. This is Puma Punku, a temple complex within the city of Tiwanaku. Large sandstone slabs lie beside dark volcanic andesite blocks. Andesite is a hard volcanic rock. Many surviving pieces still show straight edges, right angles, deep grooves, drilled holes, and repeated H-shaped forms.
At about 3,850 metres on Bolivia’s Altiplano, near Lake Titicaca, a broken stone platform sits among huge blocks. This is Puma Punku, a temple complex within the city of Tiwanaku. Large sandstone slabs lie beside dark volcanic andesite blocks. Andesite is a hard volcanic rock. Many surviving pieces still show straight edges, right angles, deep grooves, drilled holes, and repeated H-shaped forms.