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Tagsmarcahuasi
2 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Quaternary geology Holocene wind tafoni onto Miocene andesite geology, no cultural horizon Holocene natural / fringe claim Pre-Columbian hypothetical · Natural andesite tafoni and wind hoodoos / fringe attribution to Masma culture (Ruzo unvalidated)
Marcahuasi second plateau amphitheatre 3950 m — 80 m hoodoo ring and 15 m 'Fortune Altar' mesa, wind-faceted andesite claimed as Lemurian carvings, geology tafoni.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Late Intermediate to Inca 900–1470 CE for human chullpas; natural rocks Tertiary · Wari-Associates?/Yauyo to Inca; natural geology Tertiary volcanics
4000-m 'stone forest' of giant natural pareidolic rocks and chullpa tombs.
