News Archaeology Pre-Inca people stomped salutes to their thunder god on a special dance floor The find provides a rare glimpse into the role played by sound and dance in ancient societies An excavated section of a platform (pictured) at a pre-Inca site in Peru provided clues to how this surface may have amplified the sounds of stomping dancers, probably as they ritually honored their thunder god. PIACI/ORP project Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterPinterestPocketRedditPrint By Bruce Bower August 22, 2023 at 7:00 am Roughly a century before the Inca empire came to power in A.D.