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<< News >> Evidence of Ancient Amazon Civilization Uncovered

Submitted by Andy B on Saturday, 30 January 2010  Page Views: 3430

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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.

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Ancient Amazon Civilization - Site Listings by bat400 on Monday, 01 February 2010
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For more, see: Cruzeirinho and it's comments, as well as Mustafa, Boca de Acre, and Ranch Parana.

All were reported in "Pre-Columbian geometric earthworks in the upper Purus: a complex society in western Amazonia", by Parssinen, Schaan, and Ranzi, Antiquity 83 (2009): 1084-1095.
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