Posted on 02/23/2009 3:22:34 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Many modern scientists have assumed that no complex civilization could have emerged in so hostile an environment, where the soil is agriculturally poor, mosquitoes transport lethal diseases, and predators lurk amid the forest canopy. The Amazon's brutal conditions have fueled one of the most enduring theories of human development: environmental determinism... Yet in recent years archeologists have begun to find evidence of what Fawcett had always claimed: ancient ruins buried deep in the Amazon, in places ranging from the Bolivian flood plains to the Brazilian forests. These ruins include enormous man-made earth mounds, plazas, geometrically aligned causeways, bridges, elaborately engineered canal systems, and even an apparent astronomical observatory tower made of huge granite rocks... Fawcett also studied the 16th- and 17th-century chronicles of the El Dorado hunters. Even though the conquistadores had not found a golden kingdom, they had reported seeing "cities that glistened in white," with temples, public squares, palisade walls, causeways, and exquisite artifacts... while Fawcett was climbing a desolate mound of earth above the flood plains of the Bolivian Amazon, he noticed something sticking out of the ground. He scooped it into his hand: it was a shard of pottery. He started to scour the soil. Virtually everywhere he scratched, he later wrote, he turned up bits of ancient, brittle pottery. He thought the craftsmanship was as refined as anything from ancient Greece or Rome or China. "Wherever there are 'alturas,' that is high ground above the plains" in the Amazon basin, Fawcett said, "there are artifacts." And that wasn't all: extending between these alturas, there appeared to be some sort of geometrically aligned paths. They looked, he could swear, like "roads" and "causeways."
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Kuelap - The Machu Picchu Of Northern Peru (Chachapoyas - White, blonde haired people)
"Inca chronicles and legends persist that the Cloud People were tall fair (skin and hair) warriors. This is reinforced by an unusually large proportion of blond, fair natives in this zone who know of no European ancestry."
Don't you guys know anything?
What make you think we left...Earthling?
Great grandpa?
Nope. Wrong haplogroup.
112 of 278?
This is awesome stuff - almost like finding another world.
1491 is a great book. I recommend it highly.
Does this thread involve ‘UFO’s?
(’Cause that would be AWESOME.)
“Look, a spaceship!”
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Pretty neat potlatch!
[Pretty neat potlatch!]
Yep, I’ve got lots of ‘swingin’, uh, monkeys. heh.
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I knew you could not resist the flying saucer comment!
[I knew you could not resist the flying saucer comment!]
For sure, I had just spent a lot of time on it, lol. One use isn’t fair!!
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You have got the “Borg Cube” in there too!
I should make a parody Star Trek graphic with the “Burg” -
Borg - Burg - Cube, lol, it’s all one gif, we’ve used it before.
How do you parody Star Trek? Well, I could think of something..
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The Monster Burger from Outer Space
That would be interesting, it could shoot out onions!
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