# Tiwanaku masons cut the blocks with stone hammers and abrasives to standard modules using templates, over…

> Most likely: Tiwanaku masons cut the blocks with stone hammers and abrasives to standard modules using templates, over long working times.

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# Tiwanaku masons cut the blocks with stone hammers and abrasives to standard modules using templates, over…

Tiwanaku masons cut the blocks with stone hammers and abrasives to standard modules using templates, over long working times.

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

## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests supported it: three pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Pecking and grinding marks on all worked surfaces; tolerances within what stone tools and abrasion achieve; unfinished blocks showing the stages.
- Blocks of a type interchangeable because they share a template, not because of machine tolerances.

## What would rule it out

- Surfaces or tolerances reproducible only with hardened metal or powered tools, or tool marks unlike any experimental replication.

## Evidence 3 for · none against

[H-blocks, niche blocks and lintels were cut to standard modules from templates and any block of a type fits…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/puma-punku/evidence/EVD0D69YHSE1W75/h-blocks-niche-blocks-and-lintels-were-cut-to-standard)

Established

FOR

[Quarries at Ccapia and Kimsachata hold abandoned blocks at intermediate stages.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/puma-punku/evidence/EVD0D69YJ924AGE/quarries-at-ccapia-and-kimsachata-hold-abandoned-blocks-at)

Supported

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[Tool marks show pecking with stone hammers followed by grinding; experiments reproduced the cuts with such…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/puma-punku/evidence/EVD0D69YJ1854XN/tool-marks-show-pecking-with-stone-hammers-followed-by)

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FOR

## The questions it answers

[How were the Puma Punku andesite blocks cut so precisely, and could the Tiwanaku have done it?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/puma-punku/questions/QST0D69YGJC3BNF/how-were-the-puma-punku-andesite-blocks-cut-so-precisely-and)

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