It's about time we made a list post for material on history-fabrication and construction of 'historical artifacts'. Covering: Mysterious Civilizations of Pre-Columbian America. Mysteries and Unravellings. Part 1. The inscrutable Sacsayhuaman Part 2. The Mad Monuments of Cuzco Part 3. Delirium of the Architect of Tiwanaku Part 4. Ancient..."
From time to time I have made comments in various magazines about the mysterious Easter Island statues and the mystery of their movements around the island, which I have not collected together before now. It's about time for a proper post. I tried to find the earliest photo of the Easter Island icons. Wikipedia has only one early photo, allegedly from 1880...
The Peruvian-Bolivian antiquities are not exactly Mesoamerica, and historians have scattered them to different cultures and times, but in fact they were made at approximately the same time as the Central American antiquities. They were made using the same technology, by the same performer - a workshop of history makers.