[SunkenCiv]

See also Anna Roosevelt (do a search site:freerepublic.com), meanwhile, looks like nothing new on it has been posted in a while:

“El Dorado” discovered in Peruvian Amazon, explorers claim
Agencia EFE | July 27, 2002 | David Blanco Bonilla
Posted on 07/27/2002 3:35:59 PM PDT by HAL9000
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/723394/posts

Lost Inca city “El Dorado” discovered in Peruvian Amazon!
Northern Light | Saturday, July 27, 2002 5:02 PM EST | David Blanco Bonilla
Posted on 07/28/2002 4:05:10 PM PDT by vannrox
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/723732/posts

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I had assumed that the abundance of terre preta made the concept virtually irrefutable. Somebody made all of that soil.

[Islander7]

Does the Amazon jungle conceal a vanished empire?

Yes and so will the North American continent if we don't stop 0bama.

[Sherman Logan]

A very interesting book by Charles Mann, 1491, covered this issue in considerable detail.

He points out, quite accurately, that our history of “native Americans,” largely based on victimology, isn’t really “their” history at all. By extension this applies to “black history,” etc. I have found “black history” books to be remarkably disinterested in what the black man was doing before whitey showed up.

Victim-based history is only about the victimization of “indigenous peoples” by the evil white man. Whitey always has the starring role. It casts the native in the role of object, removing from him the dignity of being an actor in his own play. It is a disservice to both “races.”

Anyway, the Americas had a long and fascinating history before 1491, with Andean civilization apparently rivaling Sumeria and Egypt for antiquity. There was also quite a massive civilization in the Amazon. It collapsed when 90% to 95% of the natives died by 1600 throughout the Americas as a result of the merging of the American and Eurasian/African disease ecosystems. Probably about the same percentage never saw a white man.

Recommend the book.

[RegulatorCountry]

Deserts come and go, cities get buried in the sand and forgotten. I’d imagine jungle would be the same. Climate change is no recent phenomenon.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I note one reoccurring assumption, that the Amazon basin is today as it was then. This is a terrible assumption of anthropology and archaeology.

For example, when we imagine a place like Egypt, that today is mostly desert, except in the immediate vicinity of the Nile, we automatically assume that it was equally desert several thousand years ago. But what if we are wrong? In truth, a mere 8,000 years ago, North Africa was lush and green. And only very slowly did it become the desert seen today.

So why assume that the Amazon basin has always been a place of lush, if inhospitable, jungle? Fertile farmland can be just as ruined by encroaching jungle as it can by encroaching desert. Eventually, the farmer spends so much time weeding and killing insects that he gives up and leaves.

Things change. Sometimes fast, and sometimes slow.

[AmericanVictory]

And are there not accounts of a “white” people seen in the ruins of some ancient cities in the Amazon who shrank from contact with those from out civilization exploring there?

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[evets]

Does this thread involve ‘UFO’s?

(’Cause that would be AWESOME.)

“Look, a spaceship!”