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Rock ArtSite Name: Area das Lajes Alternative Name: "Area of Slabs"
Country: Brazil
NOTE: This site is 12.701 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Manaus, Brazil
Latitude: 3.06S  Longitude: 59.99W
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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1Awful
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Rock Art in the Amazon Basin.
Petroglyphs of human faces, snakes, and geometric figures. A severe drought lowered the Rio Negro near its junction with the Amazon, revealing this figures. The age of the carvings have been given a very, very wide estimate of 3000 to 7000 years old (by President of the Brazilian Society of Archaeology, Eduardo Góes Neves).

As rains have returned, and rising water has once again covered the figures. A photograph was published in acritica Amazonia, and later republished at Above Top Secret.

The location given is very general, though the news account "seems" to indicate that the figures are on land owned by the Center for Environmental Studies and Projects of the Amazon (AERC).

Note: Stone age etchings found in Amazon basin as river levels fall. See comment.
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Stone age etchings found in Amazon basin as river levels fall. by bat400 on Wednesday, 01 December 2010
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Drought in Brazil reveals engravings up to 7,000 years old – evidence of ancient civilisation. A series of ancient underwater etchings has been uncovered near the jungle city of Manaus, following a drought in the Brazilian Amazon.

The previously submerged images – engraved on rocks and possibly up to 7,000 years old – were reportedly discovered by a fisherman after the Rio Negro, a tributary of the Amazon river, fell to its lowest level in more than 100 years last month. Tens of thousands of forest dwellers were left stranded after rivers in the region faded into desert-like sandbanks.

Though water levels are now rising again, partly covering the apparently stone age etchings, local researchers photographed them before they began to disappear under the river's dark waters.

Archaeologists who have studied the photographs believe the art – which features images of faces and snakes – is another indication that thousands of years ago the Amazon was already home to large civilisations.

Eduardo Neves, president of the Brazilian Society of Archaeology and a leading Amazon scholar, said the etchings appeared to have been made between 3,000 and 7,000 years ago when water levels in the region were lower. The etchings were "further, undeniable evidence" that the region had been occupied by a significant number of ancient settlements and people.

Recent years have seen a growing number of archaeologists studying the Amazon, revising previous theories that the rainforest was too inhospitable to host a major civilisation.

With soy farmers, loggers and urban settlements advancing, cataloguing and preserving ancient Amazon sites had become a race against time.

"In the city of Manaus the amount of archaeology that has been destroyed is impressive," Arroyo-Kalin said.

Archaeologists are particularly concerned about the imminent inauguration of a 2.2-mile bridge across the Rio Negro connecting Manaus with Iranduba. The area is home to numerous archaeological sites, where ancient ceramics and burial urns have been found. "The bridge … will probably alter quite dramatically life on the other side of the Rio Negro … because [it] will put pressure on the land with urbanisation, and river fronts tend to be loaded with archaeological remains," Arroyo-Kalin said. "By changing the dynamic of how the region is being used … you will certainly start damaging archaeology."

Neves said he hoped the latest find would boost efforts to preserve the rainforest and its ancient secrets.

For more, see http://www.guardian.co.uk.
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