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Band of Holes
Band of Holes is the name given to a series of hundreds of holes found in the Pisco Valley on the Nazca Plateau in Peru. The holes themselves lie between and extending for several miles in a basically north-south orientation over uneven mountain surfaces. The holes range in size from a yard (a meter) to as much as in diameter and vary in depth from a few inches to .〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.world-mysteries.com/mpl_piscovalley.htm )〕 The holes are on the same plateau as the Nazca Lines, but exhibit a different construction style.
Victor Wolfgang von Hagen surveyed the area in 1953. In ''The Royal Road of the Inca'' he describes these as pre-Inca graves, writing that:
These circular, stone-lined although unused graves lay in rows, seven to nine, and marched up the 50° angle to the slope called Mt. Sierpe, that is the “shaking” line of graves reminding the one who named it of a serpent. There are over 5,000 such graves; empty, graves in so far as they are circular and stone-lined, and of the same construction of those graves which are found with mummies, weavings and pottery. For years, ever since 1931 they appeared on the photographic plates of the aerial surveys of the Shippee- Johnson expedition, they were the "strange and mysterious pockmarks”, but when discovered and surveyed by the von Hagen expedition in 1953 and found to be unused graves, the mystery was compounded. The Inca engineers would have seen the same phenomena but as in the case of the equally mysterious Nasca lines, they filled in those which interfered with the road and ran it over and through them.
Archaeologist John Hyslop wrote in his 1980 book ''The Inka Road System'' that "Circular structures, sometimes semisubterranean, that may have been used for storage are also found on the Peruvian south coast in the sites Quebrada de la Vaca (Andes 1960:252, 253) and at Tambo Colorado. Hundreds of stone-lined circular holes in rows have been found on a low ridge on the north side of the Pisco Valley (Shippee 1933:93; Wallace 1971:105-106). Although their role has not been determined, a hypothesis for investigation is that they were used for storage. They are between two important Inka sites (Tambo Colorado and Lima la Vieja), and very near the point where the Inka coastal road crosses the road to the highlands. They might be one of the empire's larger storage sites."
The holes were a subject of discussion on the ''Ancient Aliens'' episode "The Mission", along with the Nazca lines.
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