Evidence of Ancient Amazon Civilization Uncovered

The Sphere/AOL ^ | 1/09/2010 | David Knowles

[fishhound]

(Jan. 8) – As a result of the deforestation of the Amazon basin, a startling discovery has been made. Hidden from view for centuries, the vast archaeological remains of an unknown, ancient civilization have been found.

A study published in Antiquity, a British archaeological journal, details how satellite imagery was used to discern the footprint of the buildings and roads of a settlement, located in what is now Brazil and believed to span a region of more than 150 miles across. "The combination of land cleared of its rain forest for grazing and satellite survey have revealed a sophisticated pre-Columbian monument-building society in the upper Amazon basin on the east side of the Andes. This hitherto unknown people constructed earthworks of precise geometric plan connected by straight orthogonal roads," the researchers wrote in the journal.

[Charlespg]

That is the hottest cartoon since Betty Boop!

Uhh no

[Tainan]

Rumble in the Amazonian Jungle ping

[Eternal_Bear]

The earliest Spanish explorers reported large population centers along the Amazon. European diseases probably did wipe them out. The survivors fled to the jungles and their societies never recovered.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Tainan, bfl.

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[Rebelbase]

Seen this?

[Talisker]

The earliest Spanish explorers reported large population centers along the Amazon. European diseases probably did wipe them out. The survivors fled to the jungles and their societies never recovered.

The diseases were focused by the herding of the native populations into Catholic Missions at the points of Spanish swords. Mission tourists in California, for example, mostly don't realize that they are visiting mass grave sites of hundreds, and often thousands, of natives. They simply had no resistence to the European diseases - they dropped like flies.

[Talisker]

The earliest Spanish explorers reported large population centers along the Amazon. European diseases probably did wipe them out. The survivors fled to the jungles and their societies never recovered.

The diseases were focused by the herding of the native populations into Catholic Missions at the points of Spanish swords. Mission tourists in California, for example, mostly don't realize that they are visiting mass grave sites of hundreds, and often thousands, of natives. They simply had no resistence to the European diseases - they dropped like flies.

[onedoug]

Were they cannibals too?

[blam]

"Seen this?"

Thanks friend.

[razorback-bert]

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[SunkenCiv]

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