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Excavation in Tiwanaku and Puma Punku, Second part. A High quality phots of excavations that took place over 100 years ago. Tiwanaku and Puma Punku is a big

https://interactive.archaeology.org/tiwanaku/project/pumapunku2.html
Pumapunku Temple Update. June 29, 2002. We've just finished our second week of excavation, and things are going quite well. We spent much of the first week removing the backfill from the excavation trenches we dug in 2000 and 2001. Once they were exposed, we were ready to begin new excavation units.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/puma-punku-002
The second largest stone block at Puma Punku is 7.90 meters (25.9 ft.) long, 2.50 meters (8.20 ft.) wide, and 1.86 meters (6.10 ft.) thick. Generally it is agreed that the large red sandstone blocks were quarried about 10 km (6.21 miles) away from Puma Punku and the smaller, more ornamental andesite was sourced about 90 km (55.92 miles) away on

https://gizmodo.com/scientists-virtually-reconstruct-magnificent-pre-incan-1831051922
Pumapunku, which means "door of the puma," was a temple designed and built by the pre-Incan Tiwanaku culture, who lived and thrived in what is now western Bolivia from 500 AD to 1,000 AD.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general/puma-punku-reconstruction-0011193
Researchers at UC Berkeley, USA, created accurate, 3D-printed miniature models of architectural fragments to reconstruct the Puma Punku building in the Tiwanaku site. Considered to be an architectural wonder of its time (AD 500-950), Puma Punku has been ransacked over the last 500 years to a point where none of the remaining 150 blocks that

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Stone blocks at Pumapunku. Pumapunku or Puma Punku (Aymara and Quechua which literally means 'Gate of the Puma') is a 6th-century T-shaped and strategically aligned man-made terraced platform mound with a sunken court and monumental structure on top that is part of the Pumapunku complex, at the Tiwanaku Site near Tiwanacu, in western Bolivia.The Pumapunku complex is an alignment of plazas and

https://interactive.archaeology.org/tiwanaku/project/pumapunku3.html
Pumapunku Temple Update. August 12, 2002. The excavations at the Inka settlement around the Pumapunku pyramid have been going very well. In the previous update, I mentioned that occupations from the Colonial period were slowing our progress down to the Inka levels. Two weeks ago we finished recording the Colonial features, which consisted of

https://heritagesciencejournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40494-018-0231-0
The ruins of Tiwanaku (A.D. 500-950), in the modern republic of Bolivia, present an archaeological challenge owing to intense looting during the colonial period that effectively demolished the site. One building in particular, known as the Pumapunku, was described by Spanish conquistadors and travelers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as a wondrous, though unfinished, building

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Puma Punku from the air (Author provided) Viracocha's Presence at Tiwanaku. The lake is the origin point of the great bearded god - Viracocha, who was said to have emerged from the waters on to the Island of the Sun, created a team of stone or mud giants and instructed them to build all the megalithic sites and carve statues of their great god along the Path of Viracocha, that included

https://diggingupancientaliens.com/episode-45-pumapunku-tiwanaku.html
The non-mystery of Puma Punku and Tiwanaku. Episode 45 • 19th September 2023 • Digging Up Ancient Aliens • Fredrik Trusohamn. 00:00:00 00:42:20. This time, we will explore the fantastic ruins of Puma Punku (or Pumapunku), a temple complex located within Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco or Tiahuanacu). This site lies in modern Bolivia, and its

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precursors to Tiwanaku's powerful empire. (2) As for Puma Punku, a radiocarbon date was obtained from the lowermost and oldest layer of mound fill. This layer was deposited during the first of three construction epochs and dates the initial construction of the Puma Punku at 1510 ±25 B.P. C14 (AD 440; calibrated, AD 536-600). Since the

https://www.academia.edu/36448246/A_Radiocarbon_Chronology_of_the_Pumapunku_Complex_and_A_Reassessment_of_the_Development_of_Tiwanaku_Bolivia
C-58 9.. M-3 10. p22 Figure 11.2 The Pumapunku complex. architectural features revealed by the earlier excavation projects allowed for a more detailed reconstruction of the Pumapunku and its architectural history. ... "Interpreting the Meaning of Ritual Spaces: The Temple Complex of Puma Punku, Tiwanaku, Bolivia." PhD diss., University of

https://allthatsinteresting.com/pumapunku
In western Bolivia, a dramatic collection of stones, the remains of a vast temple complex, stand guard over an arid plane. They are what's left of a stunning architectural feat accomplished by a society that predates even the Inca: the Tiwanaku. Pumapunku, a name that means "door of the puma," was a holy site started between 500 and 600 CE.

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Figure 3: general view of Pumapunku. One early Spanish conquistador chronicler, Pedro de Cieza de Leon, who visited Lake Titicaca on the Altiplano in 1549, marveled over the ruins of Pumapunku, wondering what tools could have been used to achieve such perfection (English translation [12]) " In another, more to the westward [of Tiwanaku], there are other ancient remains, among them many

https://www.academia.edu/5631446/The_Enduring_Enigma_Of_Puma_Punku_in_Bolivia
Rather than an entity unto itself, Puma Punku is in the vicinity of, and indeed a part of the far more famous Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco) complex, the latter being less than 1 km away from the former. However, less than 10 percent of the visitors who make the trip across the Peruvian border, or the 72 km from La Paz, the capital of Bolivia, to see

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The excavation trenches of Vranich show that the clay, sand, and gravel fill of the Puma Punku complex lies directly on the sterile middle Pleistocene sediments. These excavation trenches also demonstrated the lack of any so called pre-Andean Middle Horizon cultural deposits within the area of the Tiwanaku Site adjacent to the Puma Punku complex.

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/bolivia/tiwanaku/attractions/puma-punku/a/poi-sig/1530897/1315979
Puma Punku. Across the railway line southwest of the Tiwanaku site, you'll see the excavation site of Puma Punku. In this temple area megaliths weighing more than 130 tons have been discovered. Like Kalasasaya and Akapana, there is evidence that Puma Punku was begun with one type of material and finished with another; part was constructed of

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/archaeologists-find-underground-pyramid-tiahuanaco-bolivia-020278
Read more about New Discoveries at Tiwanaku & Puma Punku: The Lost Statue of Viracocha and Secret Rooms of Hidden Artifacts; 21 May, 2018 - 19:12 Dr Massimo Bonasorte. ... New Excavation Might Reveal Fate of Lost Colony of Roanoke. Curious L-Shaped Structure Found near Giza Pyramids is 4,500-Years-Old.

https://sacredland.org/tiwanaku-lake-titikaka-bolivia/
The Puma Punku complex consists of a terraced platform with an unwalled courtyard to the west and walled courtyard to the east. At the peak of its use by the Tiwanaku empire, Puma Punku is thought to have been highly decorated with polished metal plaques, brightly colored ceramic and fabric. Tiwanaku, Colonization and the Church

https://www.livetheworld.com/activities/bolivia/archaeological-site-puma-punku
The Tiwanaku Site, of which Puma Punku is a part, offers a deeper understanding of the ancient Tiwanaku civilization. You can visit the Akapana pyramid, believed to be Puma Punku's twin, and witness the remnants of a once-thriving civilization. Additionally, the town of Tiwanaku, located just a short distance from the archaeological site

https://hiddenincatours.com/the-enigma-of-puma-punku-in-bolivia/
Clearly one of the strangest and most misunderstood ancient sites in the world is that of Puma Punku, located at 13,000 feet in altitude and about 2 hours from Bolivia's capitol city La Paz. Thought by conventional academics to have been created by the Tiwanaku culture between 100 and 900 AD, these scholars can not

https://www.ancient-code.com/ancient-underground-city-and-pyramid-found-near-tiwanaku/
By Ancient Code Team April 20, 2022 Updated: May 2, 2024 0 Comments 3 Mins Read. A group of archeologists from Bolivia has found an underground city dating back to pre-Inca times outside the ancient archaeological site of Tiwanaku, in the province of Ingavi, in the department of La Paz, as reported by the Bolivian Ministry of Cultures and Tourism.

https://hiddenincatours.com/the-enigma-of-puma-punku-and-tiwanaku-bolivia/
Of the megalithic ruins of the world, one that still stupefies visitors to South America; researchers and laymen alike, is the complex of Tiwanaku, also called Tiahuanaco in Bolivia. The most mysterious part of this archaeological site for many is Puma Punku, a cluster of shattered hard stone building block components that lie undisturbed in