Talk:Band of Holes

www.world-mysteries.com/ an unreliable source
The link itself has statements such as " What if flying machines, cars, computers, radios, televisions, nuclear weapons, lasers, spacecraft, advanced medicine, genetic engineering, and master-building-design were representations of a civilization like ours only it was firmly held in the hands of the very rich and the politically-powerful elite". It's obviously fringe and fails WP:RS. Dougweller (talk) 18:13, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

National Geographic
There is an article about Peruvian explorations, said to mention the holes, in National Geographic for January, 1933 — Air Adventures in Peru, by Robert Shippee. The article is presumably available in the National Geographic's archives, open only to current subscribers, of which I am not one. The first page of the article is online at HERE, mentioning "weird craters waiting to be filmed for the first time". Lou Sander (talk) 17:51, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's the aerial survey Shippee did. Doesn't take us very far as it's used by others, including Hyslop. No land-based examination.

I've asked a friend to get this:dwight wallace valles de chincha y de pisco Sitios Arqueológicos del Perú (Segunda Entrega). Valles de Chincha y de Pisco. Arqueológicas 13 And ordered, very cheaply The Royal Road of the Inca - Page 160

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HnEKAQAAIAAJ Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen - 1976 - ?Snippet view Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen ... It moves right through pre-Inca graves of Mt. Sierpe. ... "strange and mysterious pockmarks", but when discovered and surveyed by the von Hagen expedition in 1953 and found to be unused graves, the mystery ... Doug Weller (talk) 17:53, 6 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Sorry, that's well spotted though, I didn't uncover it. How did you search for it? Doug Weller (talk) 17:54, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Expand and reorganize
I shifted things around and added some new material from the newly-found Backdirt reference. That reference may require a free registration to access, but IMHO it's worth it. It is a well-written exposition of the site and its history, based on a very recent visit. I restored a very brief mention of Ancient Aliens, since the Backdirt visit and article were inspired by numerous inquiries that UCLA archaeologists received from viewers of that program.

The first sentence in the Description section is actually based on reference #1. I couldn't figure out how to give that reference a name that could be re-used. Maybe somebody else can take care of that. Lou Sander (talk) 14:22, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

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page name
Why is the article name "Band of Holes" instead of Monte Sierpe? the site is in Peru, not in an English-speaking country. We don't write Chichen Itza as 'cenote mouth' or some such thing. I never would have thought to look under the former. Kdammers (talk) 07:10, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
 * As I understand things, the "Band of Holes" is a translation of the common name for the geoglyph, whereas Monte Sierpe is the name of the hill where the geoglyph is located. That said, most of the articles in english about the site seem to blur that distinction to some degree, possibly because the phrase "band of holes" is not as distinctive as something like Stonehenge.Mighty Antar (talk) 09:35, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
 * But the article lede does not say that the site is ON the hill; instead, it says, "The Band of Holes [is] also known in Spanish as Monte Sierpe." It is not unusual for archaeological sites to have the same name as their geographical location.Kdammers (talk) 06:17, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I'd appeciate informed changes to the article. When I last looked at this there was a dearth of authoritative material.Mighty Antar (talk) 11:07, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

For growing crops?
Wondering if the purpose of these holes could be for growing crops, as in currently done on Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands? Mark Taylor (talk) 00:25, 23 June 2024 (UTC)