For nearly a century, thousands of strange holes carved into a barren Peruvian hillside puzzled archaeologists, historians, and even conspiracy theorists.
  • happydoors@lemmy.world
    1 month

    The computer or spreadsheet idea is a bit ridiculous to me on account of even ancient humans could devise the same method in a smaller scale without the backbreaking 5,000 holes being dug. Every other idea presented by the article makes sense to me.

    • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
      1 month

      Ancient humans were kind of known for building things big af though. Pyramids, petroglyphs, henges.

      Khufu’s pyramid has like 2 million blocks. 5000 holes is a rounding error.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.world
        1 month

        Those were big because they had religious meaning.
        That is very different from an accounting system, that is supposed to be practical.