"Mountaintops made flat were for ancient UFOs": Another Argument of the "Ancient Aliens" Show Begins to Bite the Dust

For  some  time  now,  Giorgio  Tsoukalos  ("the  guy  with  all  the  hair")   and  his  associates  on  the  "Ancient  Aliens"  program  on  cable  have  shaken  up  the  Christian  world  by  arguing  very  dramatically  and  successfully  that  almost  all  traditional  religious  motifs  in  virtually  every  ancient  culture  arose  from  the  way  backwards  humans  on  earth  perceived  the  entities,  vehicles  and  cultures  of  visitors  from  outer  space  in  ancient  times.

Previously,  I  have  argued  that  their  analysis  is  slowly  falling  apart.   Giant  statues  on  Easter  Island  have  been  very  comfortably  explained.    I  argued  that  interlocking  stone  walls  in  the  southern  hemisphere  within  the  various  Polynesian  cultures   and  in  the  pacific  Rim  nations  exhibit  a  characteristic  which  stone  structures  constructed  by  man  would  exhibit  --  large  stones  on  the  bottom,   small  stones  on  top.  Ancient  Egyptian  portraits  show  Egyptians  laboriously  dragging  stone  into  place  while  another  Egyptian  lubricates  the  ground  with  water  just  ahead  of  the  stone  --  no  pi-meson  particle  beam  guns  were  needed  for  cutting  stone;    no  Higgs  boson   anti-gravity  ray  was  needed  to  levitate  the  cut  stone.

Now,  another  argument  is  starting  to  suffer  --  flat  top  mountains  in  the  Andes  as  UFO  landing  places.

For  months  now,  the  "Ancient  Aliens"   folks  have  been  arguing,  "The  tops  of  mountains  in  various  south-of-the-border  nations  have  been  flattened.   Who  would  do  that?  Why  do   that  except  as  a  landing  platform  for  ancient  flying  machines?"

It  turns  out  that  there  is  a  reason  to  engage  in  mountain-top-flattening  which  dates  from  early  times ...

Look!  Flat  mountain  tops!  For  rice  paddies!

UFO  enthusiasts  would  answer,  "Oh!  Come  on!    Rice  paddies?  In  the  Andes?  There  were  no  Asian  rice-consuming  cultures  in  the  ancient  Andes!"

Not  so  clear.     Arguments  that  there  is  good  evidence  that  the  Jomon  people  of  ancient  Japan  settled  the  west  coast  of  South  America   have  been  around  for  decades.  So  have  arguments  that  the  ancient  Maya   had  a  heavy  admixture  of  ancient  Chinese.

"But  the  Jomon  people  didn't  eat  rice!"  the  UFO  enthusiasts  would  respond.

Welllll,  near  the  end,  when  the  Yayoi   period  cultures  began  to  supplant  the  Jomon    around  300  A.D.   They  did.

UFO  enthusiasts  would  respond,  "But  there's  no  water  in  the Andes  for  rice!"

The  answer  to  that  is,  "Climates  change."    The  Anasazi,  to  the  north,     were  driven  out  of  their  homes  by  radical  climate  change.     The  great   grain-growing  cultures  of  the  ancient  Sahara  in  Africa  were  driven  out  of  their  homes  by   radical  climate  changes.

There  are  mountain-rice-paddy-type  structures  at  various  places  in  the  Andes  Mountain ...

Perhaps  the  bowl-like  structure  in  the  bottom  photo  is  a  last-ditch  effort  to  gather  water  for  rice  in  water-gathering  paddies.

No  matter  what,  isn't  there  a  little  too  much  evidence  here   to  favor  the  "Ancient  Aliens"  explanation  for  flat-top  mountains?