Strange Carvings Discovered In Amazon Jungle Using Google Earth

http://www.treasurehuntingnews.com/archaeology/strange-carvings-discovered-in-amazon-jungle-using-go | January 2, 2010 | in Archaeology, Research

[Fred Nerks]

The geoglyphs are formed by ditches up to 11 metres wide and 1 to 2 metres deep. They range from 90 to 300 metres in diameter and are thought to date from around 2000 years ago up to the 13th century.

[Outlaw Woman]

ping a ling :)

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Why do they assume they are “glyphs,” which assumes some communication purpose, and not just irrigation trenches of some sort for what used to be an agricultural area?

[cripplecreek]

Probably some ceremonial thing like the mounds and carvings all over America.

[Fred Nerks]

“Lost” Amazon Complex Found; Shapes Seen by Satellite
nationalgeographic ^ | January 4, 2010 | John Roach

Posted on Monday, January 11, 2010 5:10:20 AM by JoeProBono

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2425232/posts

[Fred Nerks]

Santa Teresinha, Brazil

[Doogle]

Martti Pärssinen of the Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes in Madrid, Spain,

"Martti got kicked out of Finland for saying blond women should dye their hair a deep brown so they can keep their heads warmer in the winter

[Vendome]

I saw something about this a while back and tried to google earth it.

Didn’t find anything but, it is very interesting.

[An.American.Expatriate]

But, would the presence of such “glyphs” be evidence that the rain forest has NOT always been there?

[Fred Nerks]

Earthmovers of the Amazon by Charles C. Mann

Are the mounds, causeways, and canals in Bolivia’s Beni region natural formations or the result of 2000 years’ labor by lost societies?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Further refinement using advanced methods shows this hidden feature.

[Fred Nerks]

But, would the presence of such “glyphs” be evidence that the rain forest has NOT always been there?

Many 'lost' cities are being discovered both by aircraft and Google, completely overgrown...

[NellieMae]

Go away wicked witch! Stop haunting us!

[RaceBannon]

I bet it is an animal pen.

[Fred Nerks]

Some of the 260 ancient earthworks located in the Amazon basin by archeologist Denise Schaan and her colleagues, which are challenging traditional assumptions about the region's history. (Courtesy of Denise Schaan)

SOURCE

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.atlantisbolivia.org/geoforms.htm

Let’s call them geoforms...

[Thermalseeker]

Probably some ceremonial thing like the mounds and carvings all over America.

Hard to drive more than a mile in my neck of the woods without seeing a mound. There's one stretch of road nearby where you can see seven mounds from one spot. A friend of mine I used to hunt arrowheads with who is now an Archeologist is working a dig site over in Chattanooga valley, over near the new VW plant. It was discovered by some construction excavation about a year and a half ago. It's apparently a burial site of chiefs or other high ranking tribe members from the woodland era. I'm told it's one of the richest finds ever in Tennessee. Lots of pristine ceremonial spears, talismans, etc.

[A.A. Cunningham]

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[a fool in paradise]

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[dfwgator]

Or somebody with a riding mower.