Forget the holes in Blackburn Lanceshire -- these are truly puzzling

Ancient holes in Peru

I can't think of even a single reason for the existence of these holes. Can you?

actually its quite well known what they were used for an who made them
the clue is in the link you posted
"hundreds of man sized holes"
in a culture that ritually mummified its dead using holes in the ground
guess

the fact that the writer of the article suggests that Zechariah Sitchen is correct when archaeologists are wrong should let you know what his agenda is really

Looking at these holes, i think the reason for them being man sized is because if they were made any bigger it would make things difficult for the people chizzeling them out.

looking at how these holes are positioned down the mountine sujests to me they could have been made for storing water as snow melted and created streams that ran down the mountine. if the weather conditions were servere they my have needed water storage for the large population that lived there.

we dont know how old they are, there may hae been a spiritual connection in all of this, 1) people who are very religeous seem to live in remote high mountines of the world like the buddists in tibet, all of the great temples in peru ect.These holes could have been produced one by one by the young men of the culture as a form of advancement to adulthood, they may even have to create the hole then live in it meditating for so many days.

Interesting find, and thank you! I hadn't heard of them before.

Hunting up the reports on them is quite a chase involving lots of detective work (which is always interesting to do.)

Soooooooo.......

They're not in the middle of nowhere. They're actually on the border of the city of Lima, Perus. The place (site, really) is called Cajamarquilla, a pre-Inca city:
www.teckcominco.com...

More about the area, that will help you get a "feel" for what's there:
www.peruvianembassy.us...

It was actually a huge urban center, with temples and pyramids:
www.virtualtourist.com...

There's actually several different types of holes:
contentdm.byu.edu.../SC_PHOT&CISOPTR=124&CISOBOX=1&REC=12

What's their purpose? Well, similar groups of holes have been found around other large pre-Incan cities that were "population centers." In these, grain has been found. There's also something special about the positioning of the holes:

Also to be seen are the colcasor deposits for huge amounts of corn, tubers andmanufactured goods. More than 500 circular andrectangular colcas have been identified. Theyhave a total storage capacity of approximately40.000 m3. These deposits are aligned along theslopes surrounding the site, and were built so that temperature and wind would create a surprising refrigerating effect in their interior.
www.go2peru.com...

So the "out of the box thinking" on that site actually fails to take into account that there are different kinds of holes. The speculation that they were used for "gold mining" is pretty fallacious. Gold mines follow quartz veins and they go deep underground. Gold isn't mined out of waist-deep pits. In fact, nothing is mined like that.

As to the "out of the box thinking" suggesting that these holes are in the middle of nowhere, that's not correct. Nor were they used to store water, since this ancient city is actually on the banks of a river.

Each family had its own pit. It was their practice to store months or years worth of food so that they could survive the periodic droughts and food shortages.

Huanaco is another ancient city with pits like this (quite a few of them) and there have been remains of grain and tubers found in them.