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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Calçoene Stone Circle Alternative Name: 'Brazilian Stonehenge', 'Amazon Stonehenge', AP-CA-18
Country: Brazil
NOTE: This site is 586.663 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Macapá  Nearest Village: Calçoene
Latitude: 2.497778N  Longitude: 50.948889W
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Calçoene Stone Circle
Calçoene Stone Circle submitted by Andy B : Image courtesy Academy For Future Science, Brazil (Vote or comment on this photo)
Stone Circle in Amapá, Brazil. A grouping of granite blocks along a grassy Amazon hilltop may be the vestiges of a centuries-old astronomical observatory - a find that archaeologists say shows early rainforest inhabitants were more sophisticated than previously believed. The 127 blocks, some as high as 9 feet (2.75 meters) tall, are spaced at regular intervals around the hill, like a crown 100 feet (30 meters) in diameter.

On the shortest day of the year — Dec. 21 — the shadow of one of the blocks disappears when the sun is directly above it.

"It is this block's alignment with the winter solstice that leads us to believe the site was once an astronomical observatory," said Mariana Petry Cabral, an archaeologist at the Amapa State Scientific and Technical Research Institute. "We may be also looking at the remnants of a sophisticated culture."

Anthropologists have long known that local indigenous populations were acute observers of the stars and sun. But the discovery of a physical structure that appears to incorporate this knowledge suggests pre-Columbian Indians in the Amazon rainforest may have been more sophisticated than previously suspected.

Read More at MSNBC and see also Mongabay for more information and photos.

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Calçoene Stone Circle
Calçoene Stone Circle submitted by Andy B : Image courtesy Academy For Future Science, Brazil (Vote or comment on this photo)

Calçoene Stone Circle
Calçoene Stone Circle submitted by Andy B (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Calçoene Stone Circle by Andy B on Thursday, 20 April 2017
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A ‘Stonehenge,’ [groan] and a Mystery, in the Amazon (Dec 2016)

As the foreman for a cattle ranch in the far reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, Lailson Camelo da Silva was razing trees to convert rain forest into pasture when he stumbled across a bizarre arrangement of towering granite blocks.

“I had no idea that I was discovering the Amazon’s own Stonehenge,” said Mr. da Silva, 65, on a scorching October day as he gazed at the archaeological site located just north of the Equator. “It makes me wonder: What other secrets about our past are still hidden in Brazil’s jungles?”

After conducting radiocarbon testing and carrying out measurements during the winter solstice, scholars in the field of archaeoastronomy determined that an indigenous culture arranged the megaliths into an astronomical observatory about 1,000 years ago, or five centuries before the European conquest of the Americas began.

Their findings, along with other archaeological discoveries in Brazil in recent years — including giant land carvings, remains of fortified settlements and even complex road networks — are upending earlier views of archaeologists who argued that the Amazon had been relatively untouched by humans except for small, nomadic tribes.

Instead, some scholars now assert that the world’s largest tropical rain forest was far less “Edenic” than previously imagined, and that the Amazon supported a population of as many as 10 million people before the epidemics and large-scale slaughter put into motion by European colonizers.

More in the New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/world/americas/brazil-amazon-megaliths-stonehenge.html?_r=0
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    Re: Calçoene Stone Circle by davidmorgan on Friday, 21 April 2017
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    "Occasional finds from earlier years and reconnaissance works since 2005 have brought to our knowledge numerous diverse and interesting archaeological monuments in this part of Amapá.

    "Until late 2005 here have been found 20 megalithic structures, 8 burial caves as well as sites of ancient villages (some on artificial mounds), burials and votive deposits of ceramics at hilltops - in total 55 archaeological sites."

    "Here should be noted that not all are convinced that AP-CA-18 has something in common with archaeoastronomy. After all - 127 blocks of granite may have lots of interesting coincidences created without intent."
    http://www.wondermondo.com.

    Just 1 stone out of so many sites seems to be an archaeoastronomical stretch of the imagination.
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