You'd think something this hard to miss would be easier to figure out.

Some serious planning went into this monument. Not unlike the planning for all megaliths.

"Its foundation was 20 feet high, a rectangular platform of gumbo clay roughly 1,000 feet long and 800 feet wide at the base. By itself, the clay would have been worse than no foundation at all--it shrinks and cracks if allowed to dry out. So the engineer found a way to keep it constantly wet. He had buttresses built at the north and south ends, and filled the space between them with another 40 feet of clay and coarser dirt, layered so as to draw water up from below by capillary action. In the Mississippi River floodplain, where the water table was always high, this would keep the clay foundation saturated and solid. For this process to work, the whole thing had to be planned out ahead of time, and the first 60 feet had to go up right away, says soil chemist, geographer, and archaeologist William Woods of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. "They had to see the end product before they began."

Building the structure required 15 million 50-pound baskets of earth--each one dug elsewhere with stone tools, carried on someone's back to the site, emptied, and tamped into place. In all probability, those who built it had many intertwined motives. They built it for religious reasons--to bring the lower world (earth, water, death) together with the upper world (sky, fire, life). They built it for political reasons--to curry favor with their leader, who was probably known as the Brother of the Sun. And they built it for social reasons--to honor their own kin and join with others in a worthy task, a task that must have combined elements of cheering the Bulls, going on pilgrimage to Mecca, and witnessing the Incarnation."
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Don't agree with everything in this article. However it's more than apparent that the planning alone for our planets archaic megalithic monuments tells us they weren't built by who academics tell us and that's just from the planning stage - the construction of the monuments are more evidence to the academics contrary.

At Tiwanaku and Pumapunku the indigenous had no writing skills with which to plan with.

My opinion is that aliens didn't help or build them either. What are your thoughts?

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