Dr. Ed Barnhart

Die Inka hat sich als Zivilisation bis in die Mitte der 1200er-Jahre nicht so schnell entwickelt. Es ist also früher als das. Aber so ist diese schöne Technologie. Pumapunku in Tiahuanaco hat sie. Und das ist natürlich 12.000 Meter nahe Lake Titicaca. Das ist ziemlich weit von der Startlinie, um damit zu starten. Aber Pumapunku dauert vielleicht 500 bis 1.000 Jahre. Also das wäre kontemporär.

Ist das Vanapu? Das sieht so aus. Das ist ein Anglein davon. Siehst du, wie fest das ist? Kein Mörder überhaupt. Große Blöcke, perfekt zusammengesetzt. For my money, there's no question that there was contact. The question remains, what was the extent of that contact? And, you know, did we... Does this represent a Andean colony on the island? Or does this represent...

Ist das Vanapu? Das sieht so aus. Das ist ein Anglein davon. Siehst du, wie fest das ist? Kein Mörder überhaupt. Große Blöcke, perfekt zusammengesetzt. For my money, there's no question that there was contact. The question remains, what was the extent of that contact? And, you know, did we... Does this represent a Andean colony on the island? Or does this represent...

Ist das Vanapu? Das sieht so aus. Das ist ein Anglein davon. Siehst du, wie fest das ist? Kein Mörder überhaupt. Große Blöcke, perfekt zusammengesetzt. For my money, there's no question that there was contact. The question remains, what was the extent of that contact? And, you know, did we... Does this represent a Andean colony on the island? Or does this represent...

A single boat of sailors that went way off course and ended up there and spent one lifetime teaching them some of the tricks they knew. And then it was done. Because there's not a ton of that. That's the only example on the island. All of the other Moai, of which there are dozens, I mean Ahu, the stands that they stand on, are of a different kind of construction. It's a one-off.

A single boat of sailors that went way off course and ended up there and spent one lifetime teaching them some of the tricks they knew. And then it was done. Because there's not a ton of that. That's the only example on the island. All of the other Moai, of which there are dozens, I mean Ahu, the stands that they stand on, are of a different kind of construction. It's a one-off.

A single boat of sailors that went way off course and ended up there and spent one lifetime teaching them some of the tricks they knew. And then it was done. Because there's not a ton of that. That's the only example on the island. All of the other Moai, of which there are dozens, I mean Ahu, the stands that they stand on, are of a different kind of construction. It's a one-off.

And I, as an archaeologist, I... I don't like enigmas. I'm looking for patterns. Enigmas are probably misleading us.

And I, as an archaeologist, I... I don't like enigmas. I'm looking for patterns. Enigmas are probably misleading us.

And I, as an archaeologist, I... I don't like enigmas. I'm looking for patterns. Enigmas are probably misleading us.

Und ja, Ryan Schoen... Man kann es eigentlich sehen, sie machen es mit Duggestücken, wie verdammte Duggestücke.

Und ja, Ryan Schoen... Man kann es eigentlich sehen, sie machen es mit Duggestücken, wie verdammte Duggestücke.

Und ja, Ryan Schoen... Man kann es eigentlich sehen, sie machen es mit Duggestücken, wie verdammte Duggestücke.

Yeah, these little chinking stones that just make the fit perfect, those are amazing. And it is interesting that they're In all sorts of places. The question that we have to ask ourselves is, you know, where is the line between, you know, diagnostically complicated and unique and that has to be diffusion versus independent invention? Like, you know...

Yeah, these little chinking stones that just make the fit perfect, those are amazing. And it is interesting that they're In all sorts of places. The question that we have to ask ourselves is, you know, where is the line between, you know, diagnostically complicated and unique and that has to be diffusion versus independent invention? Like, you know...

Yeah, these little chinking stones that just make the fit perfect, those are amazing. And it is interesting that they're In all sorts of places. The question that we have to ask ourselves is, you know, where is the line between, you know, diagnostically complicated and unique and that has to be diffusion versus independent invention? Like, you know...

None of us make the argument that because Japan has the earliest ceramics that everybody on the planet learned ceramics from the Japanese. That's an independent human invention in various parts of the world. And it's fascinating and mysterious. And we could ask the questions, well, how did the whole world figure this out? Same thing we could say with, you know, Pants and houses, things like that.

None of us make the argument that because Japan has the earliest ceramics that everybody on the planet learned ceramics from the Japanese. That's an independent human invention in various parts of the world. And it's fascinating and mysterious. And we could ask the questions, well, how did the whole world figure this out? Same thing we could say with, you know, Pants and houses, things like that.

None of us make the argument that because Japan has the earliest ceramics that everybody on the planet learned ceramics from the Japanese. That's an independent human invention in various parts of the world. And it's fascinating and mysterious. And we could ask the questions, well, how did the whole world figure this out? Same thing we could say with, you know, Pants and houses, things like that.

So which one, how to determine what has to be diffusion and what could be human independent invention? Das ist eine witzige Linie.