Archaeology: “An Overlooked Inca Wonder”<\/p>\n
April 25, 2016<\/p>\n
Hillary Ojeda<\/p>\n
A passion for aliens and archaeology ignites an investigation into one of ancient Peru\u2019s long-lost wonders.<\/p>\n
The Band of Holes, in the Pisco Valley, Southern Peru. (Photo: Facebook\/Archaeology Magazine)<\/p>\n
Monte Sierpe<\/strong>, an ancient Peruvian archaeological site, popularly known as the Band of Holes<\/strong> is unearthed from the archives, after an archaeologist received a phone call from a man asking about the link between aliens and Incas in Southern Peru<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Archaeology magazine dives into the story about Monte Sierpe where \u201cThousands of aligned holes in Peru\u2019s Pisco Valley (which) have attracted the attention of archaeologists.\u201d<\/p>\n It was two years ago when Charles Stanish<\/strong>, a University of California, Los Angeles specialist on Andean cultures<\/strong>, heard from a Pittsburgh resident over the phone. The man recalled a television program claiming the existence of a Peruvian site and the \u201chandiwork of extraterrestrials\u201d.<\/p>\n Gran Teatro Nacional hosts performance to mark Mother\u2019s Day and Pachamama<\/p>\n Although an expert in the area, Stanish had never heard of the site<\/strong>, and is not prone to investigating alien theories. However, after viewing the coordinates on Google Earth, he decided that this was a case worth investigating.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d never seen anything like it,\u201d Stanish told Archaeology magazine.<\/p>\n Bewildered by the site and the purpose of the holes<\/strong>, Stanish and his colleague Henry Tantalean began to speculate the various uses: \u201cit could have been part of a defensive structure, or served as a marker for a trail, or might even be a geoglyph in the tradition of the nearby Nazca lines<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n What do you think, Living in Peru<\/em> readers? Will they conclude it was a defensive structure? Aliens<\/strong>? Or, a marker for a trail? Read the Archaeology Magazine<\/em> article here to find out.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Archaeology: “An Overlooked Inca Wonder” April 25, 2016 Hillary Ojeda A passion for aliens and archaeology ignites an investigation into one of ancient Peru\u2019s long-lost wonders. The Band of Holes, in the Pisco Valley, Southern Peru. (Photo: Facebook\/Archaeology Magazine) Monte Sierpe, an ancient Peruvian archaeological site, popularly known as the Band of Holes is unearthed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5322],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}