Pumapunku
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Pumapunku or Puma Punku is a 6th-century T-shaped and strategically aligned man-made terraced platform mound with a sunken court and monumental structure on top, near Tiwanaku, La Paz, Bolivia. It is
An example of high-precision small holes
Unfinished (upside down) block of andesite with blind holes. On finished blocks, each blind hole houses a tiny T-shaped cramp socket, proving that the blocks should be mated with others.
Demonstration of the building block technique
Ornamental stone with I-cramp sockets which suggests that more stones were added to this block
Kalasasaya
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The Kalasasaya or Stopped Stones is a major archaeological structure that is part of Tiwanaku, an ancient archeological complex in the Andes of western Bolivia that is designated as a UNESCO World Her
General view of Kalasasaya