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In den peruanischen Anden gibt es Tausende von ausgerichteten Löchern. Archäologen glauben nun zu wissen, wer sie hergestellt hat

21.11.2025

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/science/peru-band-of-holes-mystery?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit

cnn on 21.11.2025 2:19 p.m.

A series of about 5,200 holes stretching nearly a mile (1.5 kilometers) across the Pisco Valley in the southern Peruvian Andes has baffled researchers for nearly a century. But a fresh look at the site, called Monte Sierpe, or “serpent mountain,” may help archaeologists to decipher why ancient people constructed it hundreds of years ago.

The “band of holes,” as it’s informally called, first garnered attention when National Geographic published aerial photos of the site in 1933.

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No_big_whoop on 21.11.2025 2:25 p.m.

>The team believes that indigenous people of the pre-Inca Chincha Kingdom from Peru’s coast and highland may have come to exchange goods and barter using their own goods, rather than currency.

>“Perhaps other important resources such as cotton, coca, maize, and chili peppers would have been placed in the holes and exchanged,” Bongers said. “For example, a certain number of holes containing maize would have been equivalent to a certain number of holes containing another type of good, such as cotton or coca.”