dtaai-maai wrote: ↑Wed Apr 12, 2023 10:28 pm
Well I'm pretty sure my old mucker pharvey knows the answer to this one, but he's probably lying low and plotting revenge...
It was Wales!
Hmff.... As you would say!!
We prefer to look at a little later in history when Owain Glyndwr led a revolt to retake much of Wales in the early 1400's (though we don't like talking too much about 15-20 years later!!).
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things" - Yma o Hyd.
My immediate thought was Iron Age Britain, but I'm keen on archeology and I've never seen anything like this, nor could I figure out what these might be used for. Looking again, I'm thinking Central/South America - Aztec or Inca - in which case around 1,000 years ago, give or take a couple of centuries?
As to use... storage of grain or something? Or something religious? Or burial related?
dtaai-maai wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 1:39 am
My immediate thought was Iron Age Britain, but I'm keen on archeology and I've never seen anything like this, nor could I figure out what these might be used for. Looking again, I'm thinking Central/South America - Aztec or Inca - in which case around 1,000 years ago, give or take a couple of centuries?
As to use... storage of grain or something? Or something religious? Or burial related?
Certainly not Iron Age, Pre-Inca but "1,000 years give or take a couple of centuries" well in the ballpark. Located in South America.
Nothing to do with religion or burial - storage (to a degree).
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things" - Yma o Hyd.
dtaai-maai wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 1:39 am
My immediate thought was Iron Age Britain, but I'm keen on archeology and I've never seen anything like this, nor could I figure out what these might be used for. Looking again, I'm thinking Central/South America - Aztec or Inca - in which case around 1,000 years ago, give or take a couple of centuries?
As to use... storage of grain or something? Or something religious? Or burial related?
Certainly not Iron Age, Pre-Inca but "1,000 years give or take a couple of centuries" well in the ballpark. Located in South America.
Nothing to do with religion or burial - storage (to a degree).
Apologies- had let this one slip. Saw these on a documentary recently - fascinating really: -
"The Cantalloc Aqueducts are a series of aqueducts located 4 kilometres west of the city of Nazca, Peru, built by the Nazca culture. More than 40 aqueducts were built, which were used all year round. There are other aqueducts in different parts of the city.
How do Cantalloc aqueducts work?
The spiral-shaped holes work by funnelling wind into underground canals, wind which then forced water from deep subterranean reservoirs to the places it was needed. Any water left over was then stored in surface pools.
Of the 46 underground aqueducts found, 32 are still in operation today and used by local farmers for irrigation, something that began in the pre-Inca period 1,500 years ago. In some cases, some of them run several kilometers below the surface to depths of up to 12 meters."
