January 7, 2010

a lost civilization of the Amazon?

The article adds: “This hitherto unknown people constructed earthworks of precise geometric plan connected by straight orthogonal roads. The ‘geoglyph culture’ stretches over a region more than 250km across, and exploits both the floodplains and the uplands … we have so far seen no more than a tenth of it.”

posted by in archaeology, cities, culture, history, humans | * | 2 comments 

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  1. G Shogren on January 7th, 2010 at 10:54 am

    1491

  2. James Campbell on January 7th, 2010 at 10:09 pm

    Amazing. Wish our alien overlords will return soon.

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