Unlocking Ancient Wonders: The Journey to America's Stonehenge | Parable

This programme chronicles University of Pennsylvania researcher Alexei Vranich's expedition to prove his theory of how the American Stonehenge was created: that the stones were transported across Lake Titicaca on gigantic totora reed boats and then laboriously dragged another 10 kilometers to the city.

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[psychedforlife]

I'm so proud of the Imara for completing this project with these researchers. It is great they are getting the recognition they deserve rather than aliens or giants. This shows how people can come together and for common goals.

[lh]

absolutely one of the best video documentaries I have ever seen, took you to places you could not imagine - I laughed and cried and cheered - simply outstanding!

[psychedforlife]

One of the best videos I've seen in years. Kudos to everyone on this great project.

[danielbruce]

Love the video...I especially liked the kayak test...lol

[marysloan]

I am so drawn to this lake, I have had dreams of it, I am so intrigued and do not know why???

[micronjam]

This is assuming they used a boat made of reeds to transport the immense weight that distance.
Then there is the question of the technique they used for those minute detailed rock cuttings, grooves, holes, through solid granite and diorite, the smoothness of the surfaces, , and the stone blocks which seem ti be designed to interlock into each other.
No modern theory will be enough to fully prove or disprove their abilities

[marquiquijones]

Lake titicaca is smaller than I thought, I thought it would compare to the great lakes of Michigan but it appears to be not even close. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

[adiemus]

this is so much like @TimothyAlberino 's research. He lived in 🇵🇪Peru and did research on giants in the tiawanaku area. 09:06 funny 😃 boat is to keep you dry

[iamme]

But, how to move the stone is easily figured out. Now, can they figure out how to make those very straight cuts in the rock? That would be very impressive.

[calorcito]

Incleiblee! Eso explica que el Humano construyo todo lo que existe en esta tierra 👽

[drdavidtee]

problem two- these guys did one attempt to flip a boat to prove an idea that kayaking was invented 2000 years ago, etc., and then when they failed, they concluded that didn't happen. one experiment does not a theory prove or disprove

[crazymotherofcats]

32:08 I just realized everyone casually shove coco leaves in their mouths lol

[youdontknowmemom]

If you want to heft a boulder or very big stone you couldn't have used wood. Because there wasn't much there anyways. So I would have used long smaller diameter stone lengths. Used as fulcrums.

[Steve_in_Texas]

An entertaining documentary. But the biggest takeaway I get is how poorly planned it was in some places. It seems to be full of things like "we didn't think of this", "we didn't know that", "we didn't take that into account", "that surprised us" etc etc. Maybe you did all that crap to add to the "excitement" factor, but you all managed to give yourselves the usual "we are so brilliant" pat on the back at the end!!

[drdavidtee]

first problem- they are assuming that the stones were moved only 2000 years ago and that the people who built that area did not have any technology. so right ou of the gate they are making errors and distorting their findings

[drdavidtee]

problem six- trying to change people's misconceptions is not an archaeologists' job. getting to the truth is and the time it took to do this option means it is not cost effective for the ancients to do.

[xkissax]

This experiment is great at showing peoples ingenuity. However, it took a whole community of people over 3 months to move a single stone that is by far not the largest compared to others. If whole community was working on this project in the past, who was feeding them? who was tending to their homestead? There is no consideration given to how the stones were carved to such precision. Archeologists refuse to listen to engineers. Modern engineers stare over and over that such precision is extremely difficult with modern machinery. Although i am not a stone mason, i am a metallurgist and production engineer, as such, i would loathe to reproduce some of the shapes, that would be close to impossible to complete by methods of material removal, with modern tools and in softer materials such as aluminum or brass. Take a penny and try to scrape a rock, see what happens. Igneous and metamorphic stones such as granite, and basalt, were… and still are used to sharpen hardened steel, there is no way you can shape such a hard medium, with metals as soft as copper. Even with steel that was available before industrial revolution, all you could do is chip stones, that is why you see very shallow inscriptions on otherwise perfect, mirror polished statues around the world. Leaders liked to associate themselves with the past, to have more legitimacy to rule. Last but not least, every ancient culture across the world claims that they inherited these sites. their myths state that beings, be it gods or giants built these sites. Archeologists are afraid to question their predecessors, they refuse to look at all the evidence at hand, and listen to experts in appropriate fields. I once asked my geology professor to look at a picture of the side of the sphinx, it was zoomed in to seem like side of a mountain, and asked him what kind of erosion it was, he told me that he should give me a failing grade just for asking, and then reassured me that its water erosion… when i showed him the full picture and he saw the sphinx, he was once again adamant that i should know that this is wind erosion… when i told him that the first picture was a section cropped from the full picture, and asked him again what type of erosion it was, he said its wind, even though he was ready to fail me for not knowing it was water just few seconds before. I pushed him further, and ultimately he was speechless, giving me some poor excuse on how he didn’t take a close enough look at the picture first time around. I do applaud these guys for taking the time to do such experiments, i hope more scientists do follow their examples. I just hope they keep an open mind and realize that we had multiple great civilizations, and almost had an industrial revolution back in roman times… I don’t believe aliens are the answer, but since modern men have been around for over a years, ask yourself if we came out of dark ages and reached our level of development in just over 1000 years, how many civilizations could have risen and fallen in the last years?

[VVhistory]

Yes but according to their stories there was a flood, prior the flood there was zero water and the Monoliths and giant stones were already there. If i am not wrong they were built before the flood.
Edited part: viracocha was their god and he made them build everything, then the indigenous started to murder each other and Viracocha flooded the whole area to start again. This kayak experiment is interesting but maybe not sufficient

[lyndapierson]

why did they build the boat so far away from the water

[accordiontv]

If you didn't use wood for the boat because there are no trees at that altitude, how come you use branches of wood to roll the stone and branches to leverage the stone? Surely that's cheating?