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Cast, Not Carved · claim GEO-C581 · Observation rung · The historical record

Llama caravans carried coastal guano from Ilo up to Tiwanaku (~3,800 m, hundreds of km) around AD 600, peaking during the Tiwanaku/Pumapunku construction period — although the raised-field system already provided fertilizer on site.

Not featured in the current editionAI-extractedorigin: geo catalog T-081

source anchor

Davidovits Ch 9, pp ~107–112; Minkes (2005), Wrap the Dead, Ch 5.5.2/6.5.2

Evidence

Supports· weakGEO-E063

Guano trade from Ilo to Tiwanaku via the Moquegua valley, as reported by Minkes 2005 and read by the proponents as exceeding agricultural need

what the source states
Citing Minkes (2005), the source states that llama caravans carried "the guano gathered in large quantities at Punta Coles, Ilo" up to Tiwanaku through the Moquegua valley, that this trade 'appears to have been intensified during the Tiwanaku / Pumapunku construction', and that because the raised-field system supplied fertilizer on site "They did not need the guano, because they produced on site their own fertilizer."
what we infer
Mine: the trade route and its intensification are Minkes' (second-hand here); the claim that quantities exceeded agricultural need is the proponents' assertion without figures. Supports the descriptive part of GEO-C581 weakly; the 'did not need it' inference is unquantified.
limitations
  • Minkes 2005 not read; no quantities of guano traded are given.
  • 'Intensified during construction' is undated in the source.
Joseph Davidovits (2019)AI-verified citation

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