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

A photo of an excavated section of a platform at a pre-Inca site in Peru.

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

Roughly a century before the Inca empire came to power in A.D.