They Asked the Locals Who Built It. They Laughed. | Puma Punku Documentary

1549. A Spanish conquistador named Pedro de Cieza de León walks into a field in Bolivia. He has seen the pyramids. He has seen Rome. He stops. He takes out his journal and writes: "I asked the natives who built this. They laughed at me. They said the Inca found it here — already in ruins — when they arrived." He was looking at stones weighing 130 tons, cut to tolerances of half a millimeter. Nobody has explained it since. This episode investigates Puma Punku and the Tiwanaku complex in western Bolivia — one of the most precisely engineered ancient sites on the planet, and one of the least understood. We cover the mainstream archaeological record, the five confirmed anomalies that don't fit, Arthur Posnansky's astronomical dating controversy, the Younger Dryas boundary event, and what the oral traditions of three separate civilisations consistently say about who built it. ▬ CONTENTS ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 0:00 Cold Open — Cieza de León, 1549 1:30 Act I — The Tiwanaku Complex: What We Know 10:00 Act II — The Five Anomalies 20:00 Act III — The Younger Dryas and What Was Lost 28:30 Outro ▬ SOURCES ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Pedro de Cieza de León, La Crónica del Perú (1553) Arthur Posnansky, Tihuanacu: The Cradle of American Man (1945) Müller, Beöthy & Freisleben — Solar obliquity review commission (1930s) Firestone et al., "Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago" — PNAS (2007) Bolivian National Institute of Archaeology survey records, Puma Punku site #pumapunku #tiwanaku #ancienthistory #archaeology #ancientmysteries