Originally published October 1 2003
The Incas were more advanced than we thought
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
There's a lot we could learn from ancient civilizations. The Incas, for one, were master engineers. They managed to haul 40-ton boulders up enormous hillsides and set them into place with the kind of precision that stuns engineers even today. And all this without machinery, electricity, or any sort of technology we would recognize as modern.
Now a research team reveals there were significant technological advances taking shape before the Incas. A "pre-Incan silver industry" existed, they say, involving the smelting of metals.
We're talking 11th Century AD here. This is fascinating information that could justify significant revisions in our beliefs about history. Of course, it would have been much easier to study the Incan civilization if the White Man (Spaniards, mostly) hadn't wiped them out in the first place, but that event, also, is part of history.
The examination of sediments from the Bolivian Andes suggests that ores were actively smelted earlier than originally thought--providing evidence for a major pre-Incan silver industry, says a University of Alberta professor, part of a team which conducted the research. From concentrations of metals associated with smelting, such as lead, they inferred the history of smelting from the mountain's rich ores, proving than an active metallurgical industry existed well before even the Incas discovered the mountain--as far back as the 11th Century AD. There are two possibilities for the missing silver artifacts that would have been produced during the pre-Incan era: the silver exists somewhere but has not yet been located by archaeologists or more likely, subsequent cultures have looted the artifacts.
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