These holes have been carved/dugout of solid rock. What, man didn't have better things to do in ancient times.
http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Cajamarquilla.html
I like to check weird stuff as you never know what you'll find. -----Willy 
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The topic both covers holes and they are both in Peru according to the subject test. So, it seems to appear so, what I have no idea though.
When viewing your picture, it seems the darken area of the holes where they mention it, seems to me as if it represents a open snake's mouth. Just a thought. -----Willy
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.... because the info is packed away somewhere, but the story is true.
(I know first hand.)
When one visits the Aran Islands, tall stone columns are seen. The locals will say that there is so much rock that they have to bury their dead standing up, so the columns are, shall I say, individual mausoleums/
Decades ago a reporter from a major American newspaper was told the same thing when he visited. On his return he wrote an article, as he thought it was true.
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....when I saw similar years ago at some other site and studied the pictures and also those other holes had something like small arching mounds looking like they were directing some flow, I realized they were to catch runoff from snow melt or rain. The particular ones I recall some lids had been found nearby too which would have protected the clean water. As for these holes, they might have been constructed for similar reasons, maybe at one time had some fill dirt placed in them and a corn or other food providing plant in each one.
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Here in cliff dweller country archaeologists have found evidence that necessity is indeed the mother of [some amazing] inventions: Save water or die.
I may have mentioned before that many of those ancients waterproofed their irrigation ditches; our ditch system today is mostly bare dirt, so many acre-feet are lost each season to seepage. Evolution, my foot!
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....knew and did some amazing things for "primitive" people. One or both had built water transports that rivaled the Roman aqueducts in their ability to bring water from long distances. I remember reading how they'd put large rocks spaced properly apart to create turbulence on the downhill runs and thereby slow the flow. They also narrowed and deepened channels where they went uphill using hydraulic principle to speed the water up so it would flow uphill.
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and their siphoning through some very large and deep valleys. And remember they probably had to guess if it would work; modern engineers can model first.
Also, the Mayans used zero, and had calendars that predicted celestial events including planetary events.
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That the Olmecs first used zero. If so, maybe the Mayans came from those people. On the other hand, maybe the Olmecs came from the south, or ultimately, from across the Pacific.
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Which Alf? The only one I remember was from the planet Melmac.
Here, Kitty Kitty (grin).
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for a melamine dinnerware popular as an informal table setting. If today's news is correct, we're not just eating off the plates but might be eating the plates as well.
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tableware was, of course, processed and baked to a fare-thee-well. The kitties are getting the raw powder, I think.
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Whether "came from those people" is the case, certainly the concept wouldn't have had far to travel. The Wikipedia article also shows the importance of zero to the excellent astronomical calculations these people made.
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I believe some of the best engineering of the ancients were water related. More importantly they were "practical engineering", everything from aqueducts, plumbing, reservoirs, drainage and irrigation. On the flip side were roads and found on both sides of the world, old and new. Too bad, they practiced war mongering it seems and left only structures like roads and water projects, besides the building. I wondered what they would have done with asphalt, still be patched today. 
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considered one of those 'civil service, sleep on the job' positions. Not back then, though.
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types were ... piling up dirt?!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/6645367.stm
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"....Though unsheltered, the holes remain free of grass, leaves, pine needles, or debris of any kind. And history has revealed that if the depressions are filled with earth?or anything else?they are always found to be empty and clean not long after. Within a few hours, the next morning, or sometimes the next week, the holes always come up empty after any attempt to fill them.
For many years, an old decayed stump of a pine tree was visible near the depressions?supposedly the rotting remnants of the tree that had figured in Jesse Elliott's death.
Around the mid-20th-century, a newsreel cameraman named Earl Harrell arrived to get some pictures of these strange marks in the ground. He was told by local residents that chickens would eat corn from all around the holes, but that they would not touch any kernals that were actually in the depressions. Harrell decided to film his own experiment with chickens and corn, and the result was the same. The birds ate all of the corn from around the holes, but ignored the feed lying within the holes themselves?even after the surrounding ground had been picked clean.
Intrigued, Harrell tried another experiment....."
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