# The core is a volcanic body with natural columnar jointing; the deep layers are weathered and slumped columns…

> Most likely: The core is a volcanic body with natural columnar jointing; the deep layers are weathered and slumped columns and soil, and nothing inside…

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# The core is a volcanic body with natural columnar jointing; the deep layers are weathered and slumped columns…

The core is a volcanic body with natural columnar jointing; the deep layers are weathered and slumped columns and soil, and nothing inside was built.

**Most likely** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests partly supported it: two pieces of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Buried columns lie in the orientation in which the lava cooled, or in downslope orientations consistent with slumping.
- Deep soils contain no anthropogenic inclusions.

## What would rule it out

- A sealed deep context with hearths, tools or bone, dated to before the terraces.

## Evidence 2 for · 1 against

[Material moving downslope tends to orient itself, which can produce apparent order in the layers.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/gunung-padang/evidence/EVD0D32CJXE7WK5/material-moving-downslope-tends-to-orient-itself-which-can)

Suggestive

FOR

[The andesite blocks are columnar joints formed as the volcano's rock cooled.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/gunung-padang/evidence/EVD0D32CJNM2GDG/the-andesite-blocks-are-columnar-joints-formed-as-the)

Established

FOR

[The 2025 government team reports carbon-bearing material and stone 'foundations' about 4 m under terrace 5.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/gunung-padang/evidence/EVD0D32CK5838ZQ/the-2025-government-team-reports-carbon-bearing-material-and)

Speculative

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[Is there a human-built structure inside the hill older than the visible terraces?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/gunung-padang/questions/QST0D32CFQW3F1A/is-there-a-human-built-structure-inside-the-hill-older-than)

Most likelyThe core is a volcanic body with natural columnar jointing; the deep layers are weathered and slumped columns…

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