Posted on 12/15/2016 7:13:06 AM PST by BenLurkin
CALCOENE, Brazil — As the foreman for a cattle ranch in the far reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, Lailson Camelo da Silva was razing trees to convert rain forest into pasture when he stumbled across a bizarre arrangement of towering granite blocks.
“I had no idea that I was discovering the Amazon’s own Stonehenge,” said da Silva, 65, on a scorching October day as he gazed at the archaeological site located just north of the equator. “It makes me wonder: What other secrets about our past are still hidden in Brazil’s jungles?”
After conducting radiocarbon testing and carrying out measurements during the winter solstice, scholars in the field of archaeoastronomy determined that an indigenous culture arranged the megaliths into an astronomical observatory about 1,000 years ago, or five centuries before the European conquest of the Americas began.
Their findings, along with other archaeological discoveries in Brazil in recent years — including giant land carvings, remains of fortified settlements and even complex road networks — are upending earlier views of archaeologists who argued that the Amazon had been relatively untouched by humans except for small, nomadic tribes.
Instead, some scholars now assert that the world’s largest tropical rain forest was far less “Edenic” than previously imagined, and that the Amazon supported a population of as many as 10 million people before the epidemics and large-scale slaughter put into motion by European colonizers.
In what is now the sparsely populated state of Amapa in northern Brazil, the sun stones found by da Silva near a stream called the Rego Grande are yielding clues about how indigenous peoples in the Amazon may have been far more sophisticated than assumed by archaeologists in the 20th century.
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“1491.”
Errrr.... pics or it didn’t happen? Seems to be missing in this story.
Of course, there are no pictures....
I recommend “the lost city of Z” by Grann. Tells the story of Percy Fawcett, and, his obsession with finding a lost city in the Xingu region of Brazil. Quite entertaining.
There already was a Brazilian “Stonehenge”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Stonehenge
How about video: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/world/americas/brazil-amazon-megaliths-stonehenge.html?_r=0
Was there something like “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn,” scrawled in graffiti on it somewhere?
“...some scholars now assert that the world’s largest tropical rain forest was far less “Edenic” than previously imagined, and that the Amazon supported a population of as many as 10 million people before the epidemics and large-scale slaughter put into motion by European colonizers.”
They’re just now figuring out it was largely populated, yet they’ve already figured out what wiped them out...white people.
Por supuesto
Here is a direct link Youtube about Stonehenge of the Amazon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfln733Dctk
>>that the Amazon supported a population of as many as 10 million people before the epidemics and large-scale slaughter put into motion by European colonizers.
The idea that any genocidal actions were anything like at the same order of magnitude as epidemics is an absurdity that only someone schooled in anti-Western thought could think to imply with a statement like that.
We’re on the same page, see my previous.
Twas Aguirre, the Wrath of God, who wiped them out! Including their pigs!
No, just "AAAAARRRGGGGGggghhhh....."
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