Cast, Not Carved · source record · report
Procedencia de las Areniscas Utilizadas en el Templo Pre-Columbino de Pumapunku (Tiwanaku)
Ponce Sangines, C.; Castaños Echazu, A.; Avila Salinas, W.; Urquidi Barrau, F. · 1971
AI-verified citationSRC-PONCE-1971
- identifier / locator
- Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Bolivia, Publicación No. 22, La Paz
- verification note
- Citation reproduced from the Davidovits 2024 bibliography and confirmed in the geo verification batch.
- reliability notes
- The standard provenance attribution for the Pumapunku sandstones.
- 1971 methods predate modern geochemical provenancing; re-examination is itself a proposed research topic (geo T-078).
Evidence drawn from this source
▼Undermines· moderateGEO-E008
1971 provenance attribution of Pumapunku sandstones to natural quarries
- what the source states
- The Bolivian Academy of Sciences study attributes the red sandstones of the Pumapunku temple to identifiable natural quarry sources.
- what we infer
- The standard provenance counter-argument to Andean casting. Its force depends on whether provenance methods could distinguish cast-from- aggregate stone at all (see GEO-C030) — and on 1971 methods holding up.
- limitations
- Pre-modern analytical methods; re-examination is itself proposed (geo topic T-078).