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A SACRED rock: machu picchu 



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I'lioiu by Hiram Bingham 



Nearly all the clan groups had what seems to have been a religious center, consisting of a 

 granite boulder or ledge carved into seats and platforms 



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ANOTHER SACKED ROCK : MACHU PICCHU 



Pliut'j by liiraiu Uiiigl 



One of these sacred rocks is only 2 feet in thickness, although 15 feet high and 30 feet 



in length (see page 471) 



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