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"Lost" Amazon Complex Found; Shapes Seen by Satellite
nationalgeographic ^
| January 4, 2010
| John Roach
Posted on 01/10/2010 10:10:20 AM PST by JoeProBono
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The Amazon Basin
To: JoeProBono
Great societies before their “green movement”.
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posted on
01/10/2010 10:11:49 AM PST
by
edcoil
(If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
To: JoeProBono
The deeper they dig, the more they are going to find.
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posted on
01/10/2010 10:13:27 AM PST
by
B.O. Plenty
(Give war a chance...)
To: JoeProBono
Wonder if there is any relationship to the figures on the Nazca plains.
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posted on
01/10/2010 10:21:30 AM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
01/10/2010 10:22:53 AM PST
by
Hegemony Cricket
(The emperor has no pedigree.)
To: JoeProBono
teemed with complex societies, which were largely wiped out by diseases brought to South America by European colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries
There's the evil white man again........
I'm more inclined to believe that most of the societies ultimately starved to death.......
If the Europeans are to blame for the diseases, why didn't they themselves die on the boats on the way over?
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posted on
01/10/2010 10:23:02 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(I want a hoochie-mama for Christmas, only a hoochie-mama will do............)
To: edcoil
I would think more of them disappeared long before the arrival of the Europeans - at the hands of the Incas or Aztecs.
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posted on
01/10/2010 10:28:28 AM PST
by
Ingtar
(I closed my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment's gone...)
To: Hot Tabasco
"The discovery adds to evidence that the hinterlands of the Amazon once teemed with complex societies, which were largely wiped out by diseases brought to South America by European colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries, Schaan said."How on earth do they jump to the conclusion that it was disease brought by European colonists? There is no indication they know who built them, why, or even when? Much less why those structures were abandoned.
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posted on
01/10/2010 10:30:04 AM PST
by
DannyTN
To: Hot Tabasco
"The discovery adds to evidence that the hinterlands of the Amazon once teemed with complex societies, which were largely wiped out by diseases brought to South America by European colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries, Schaan said."How on earth do they jump to the conclusion that it was disease brought by European colonists? There is no indication they know who built them, why, or even when? Much less why those structures were abandoned.
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posted on
01/10/2010 10:30:09 AM PST
by
DannyTN
To: JoeProBono
A satellite finds hidden ruins in the southern hemisphere?
This sounds eerily familiar ...
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posted on
01/10/2010 10:31:19 AM PST
by
SJSAMPLE
To: JoeProBono
To: Hot Tabasco
don’t forget...Amerindian culture was of course superior too....earth mounds and all being the haute culture of the time..
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posted on
01/10/2010 10:32:08 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(Ole Miss beat Oklahoma State....and Bama is #1.....it's good to be from Dixie...cold though)
To: Hot Tabasco
If the Europeans are to blame for the diseases, why didn't they themselves die on the boats on the way over?
By now, it's accepted that there were limited contacts between the "old" and "new" world well before Columbus, and even before the Norse, but in terms of diseases, people essentially lived in different universes before Europeans arrived and stayed.
I've read that many diseases jump from animal to human hosts. The old world domesticated far more species than the new [we received the cold virus from the horse] and upon contact of the two worlds, there were a lot more old world diseases to afflict new world peoples than the reverse. There is nothing sinister or conspiratorial about this--it simply is.
The Europeans sailing west carried diseases that had been in their populations for many, many generations, and they had resistance to them. New worlders had NO resistance to these diseases, and so they died by the millions.
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posted on
01/10/2010 10:34:55 AM PST
by
Nepeta
To: JoeProBono
NatGeo is a cesspool of anti-western reconstructionism and all forms of progressivism
junk
in no way resembles it’s glory of long ago when brave western White men who had actually done something dangerous and explored ran it..
now like most such places it’s run by meterosexuals, womyn with hiking boots and hair on their legs and homosexuals
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posted on
01/10/2010 10:35:11 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(Ole Miss beat Oklahoma State....and Bama is #1.....it's good to be from Dixie...cold though)
To: Ingtar
Then the Incas or Aztecs would still be there. More likely
their societies moved due to something then taken over.
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posted on
01/10/2010 10:35:49 AM PST
by
edcoil
(If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
To: BradyLS
Exactly. i was wondering that myself. Large earth-sculptures, somewhat similar.
And also the great mounds in the midwest, animal figures, I can’t remember exactly which animals.
A good book on the area is ‘The Lost City Of Z’.
To: Nepeta; Hot Tabasco
I think they now claim that syphilis was given to europeans by native americans.
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posted on
01/10/2010 10:40:18 AM PST
by
mamelukesabre
(Veni, Vidi, Vicki: "I came, I saw, and I'm like, Omigod!")
To: Hot Tabasco
Go to your dictionary and look up “immune”.
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posted on
01/10/2010 10:43:27 AM PST
by
fish hawk
(It's sad that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov)
To: Nepeta
it's accepted that there were limited contacts between the "old" and "new" world well before Columbus, and even before the Norse really..accepted by impartial scientists?
The Europeans sailing west carried diseases that had been in their populations for many, many generations, and they had resistance to them
If it's that simple to blame whites (as usual) then why didn't the Indians here have their own diseases to kill the whites in kind. Tropical areas are today the world's cesspools of contagions, so why not then? Granted that whites like everyone else had dealt with plagues and whatnot but why did Indians here not have their own diseases to which Whites were vulnerable like they do today....Ebola, AIDs etc today are endemic to tropical Africa.
What there is debate about is just how many millions of Indians there were. The truth is that due to their dispersal and lack of progress on relative civilization scales they simply could not support the populations Europe and elsewhere did. Their isolation hampered them same as it did Negroid tribes in Africa and Aborigines in Australia and elsewhere in the Pacific.
Nearly all such science today exists simply to find any fantasy route to blame whites and denigrate my ancestor's achievments...I fart in it's general direction.
PS...20 year vet of third world living...had the typhoid fever to prove it..Haiti
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posted on
01/10/2010 10:45:25 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(Ole Miss beat Oklahoma State....and Bama is #1.....it's good to be from Dixie...cold though)
To: Roscoe Karns
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posted on
01/10/2010 10:49:01 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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