April
27
/ 2016
A new hypothesis has come forward to try to explain the mysterious band of shallow holes found in the Pisco Valley in southern Peru. Researchers have been stumped for years by their purpose and their creators, but the answer may have finally arrived– Inca taxes. Archaeology magazine says that Charles Stanish, an expert on Andean cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles and his colleague Henry Tantaleán had their interest in the Band of Holes (also known as the site of Monte Sierpe) sparked two years ago when a man from Pittsburgh questioned Stanish about possible alien involvement in the creation of the holes. Stanish was not familiar with the site, but after he and Tantaleán took a look
