MegalithFringe site
Pukao
Also known asPukao Seamount
DatedEst. 1500 BCE–900 CE
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Overview
About this site
Overview
The Pukao Seamount is a submarine volcano in the south-eastern Pacific Ocean, listed in the Atlas under Chile. It is the most westerly seamount in the Easter Seamount Chain, also known as the Sala y Gómez ridge.
It rises over 2,500 metres from the ocean floor to within a few hundred metres of the sea surface. It is not a built monument; it is catalogued here under the type Other / unclassified.
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Where it sits in time
The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
Article
Pukao
The seamount rises over 2,500 metres from the ocean floor and its summit lies within a few hundred metres of the sea surface.
DescriptionSources for this section
- Wikipedia (English): Pukao (seamount)CC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (English): Pukao (seamount)CC BY-SA 4.0
The Pukao Seamount lies at the western end of the Easter Seamount Chain. To the east are Moai, another seamount, and then Easter Island. The seamount rises over 2,500 metres from the ocean floor and its summit lies within a few hundred metres of the sea surface. It is also recorded under the name Pukao, with coordinates of -26.9323, -110.2490.
SettingSources for this section
- Wikipedia (English): Pukao (seamount)CC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (English): Pukao (seamount)CC BY-SA 4.0
The seamount is fairly young. It is believed to have developed in the last few hundred thousand years as the Nazca Plate floats over the Easter hotspot. Related entries are Easter Island and Sala y Gómez.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Other prehistoric stone monuments
The Atlas uses the heading "other" for stone monuments that fit none of its other types, and the same article serves for underground chambers that have no regional article. The records are varied. Many are ziggurats, Egyptian temples and pyramids, and Maya and Andean sites, which are treated in their own articles. What remains is a scatter of single sites in many countries whose descriptions do not allow a closer classification.
Several of these are underground. A hypogeum is literally an "underground" temple or tomb, often with niches for cremated remains or loculi for buried remains. An early example is found at the Minoan Bronze Age site of Knossos on Crete, a beehive-shaped vault cut into soft rock. The Hypogeum of Ħal Saflieni in Paola, Malta, is the oldest example of a prehistoric hypogeum, with its earliest phase dated to 3600 to 3300 BCE. It is a complex of underground chambers, halls and passages covering about 500 square metres on three levels, partly carved to imitate temple architecture and containing extensive prehistoric art.
A rock-cut tomb is cut into an existing rock formation, usually a cliff or sloping rock face, and was a common burial form for the wealthy in several parts of the world. Famous clusters are in Egypt, Iran, Lycia in Turkey, Petra in Jordan and Sicily. Phrygian rock-cut tombs such as the Midas monument date to about 700 BCE, and Etruscan ones to about 500 BCE.
The general rule for these records is that the type tells you how a monument was made, not who made it or when. Dating is taken from the source for each site where a source gives one, and otherwise left as a broad range.
When visiting, read the site's own description first, since the Atlas can offer only a general frame.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Megalith, Wikipedia: Hypogeum, Wikipedia: Rock-cut tomb, Wikipedia: Stele · CC BY-SA 4.0
Lore
Evidence & Lore
What the sources actually support — and, kept apart, what has been claimed.
What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 1500 BCE–900 CEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypological estimate, not a date for this site: a other in the Andes and Amazonia is normally dated between 1500 BCE and 900 CE (Atlas typological table).Source for this date
Measured facts
- Type
- submarine volcanoSource: Type
- Position in chain
- westernmost in the Easter Seamount Chain or Sala y Gómez ridgeSource: Position in chain
- Relief
- rises over 2,500 metres from the ocean floorSource: Relief
- Nearby seamount
- Moai seamount lies to the eastSource: Nearby seamount
- Formation setting
- Easter hotspot beneath the moving Nazca PlateSource: Formation setting
- Height
- 2295 metreSource: Height
Where it stands
Chile
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 26°55′56″ S, 110°14′56″ WFor a GPS or map app: -26.93233, -110.24900
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Sources
Every record behind this page, with the link it came from.
4 sources behind this page
- 01Wikidata Q7259079wikidata.org
- 02Fringe claim sourceen.wikipedia.org
- 03Wikipedia (en)en.wikipedia.org
- 04Wikipedia: Pukaoen.wikipedia.org
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
Credit
Text, licence and sources
Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Pukao (seamount)" (English), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; authors are listed in the page history. Reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read on Wikipedia · Edit history and authors
- Wikipedia (English): Pukao (seamount)CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikidata Q7259079CC0
- Fringe claim sourceCC BY-SA 4.0