Ben van Kerkwyk
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Podcast Appearances
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It reminds me of like the โ you should have seen some of the pottery they make, right?
Like we were making โ I was making Photoshop for my friends with it.
It's literally like dick and balls and like all this pottery.
They have this whole erotic section of the Larco Museum, and it's always good for a little giggle.
So is it safe to say that less exploration has been done at this site?
It's still being slowly excavated, but, yeah, this isn't โ
I mean, the wheels are grinding slowly.
They're slowly trying to renovate.
They're trying to encourage tourism, but there's so much of that site that needs to be dug up.
It hasn't had anything like the attention Egypt has.
Well, it's tough to explain.
They don't want to deal with this possibility of a culture down there that's that old, I think.
It upsets too many other apocats, so...
I feel like it's kind of been, well, we found these carbon dates.
This fits kind of the timeline of what the Inca said too, because the Inca talk about emerging from Lake Titicaca and going north, being pushed out by the Amara people.
And if you think, okay, the Inca arrived in the Sacred Valley from the south around 1200 AD.
between 1100 and 1200 AD, so therefore they might have been at Tiwanaku at 1100 AD.