Col. Percy Fawcett (Famed explorer in movie/book “Lost City of Z”) was truly ahead of his time. Laughed at and ridiculed for his beliefs. And yet here we are.
I bet these people also traveled to Oak Island to hide their treasures with the knight templars and sir william phips.
This confirms older Spanish accounts of cities along the Amazon that were written off as myths and exaggerations. In fact the Amazon is full of such sites. Lidar exploration has been a boon.
>”This is older than any other site we know in the Amazon. We have a Eurocentric view of civilisation, but this shows we have to change our idea about what is culture and civilisation,” says Prof Stephen Rostain, director of investigation at the National Centre for Scientific Research in France, who led the research.
>”It changes the way we see Amazonian cultures. Most people picture small groups, probably naked, living in huts and clearing land – this shows ancient people lived in complicated urban societies,” says co-author Antoine Dorison.
Hmm. So “our” (everyone? the authors of the paper? that guy and his pet mouse?) Eurocentric view of civilization, as meaning people who wear clothes and live in complicated urban environments, is being challenged by… the discovery that Amazonians once wore clothes and lived in complicated urban environments.
I would have thought a challenge to the “Eurocentric view” would be to include the naked nomads in the category of “civilization”.
I feel a disturbance in the force
Makes me want to re-watch “Allen Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold”…
“While we knew about cities in the highlands of South America, like Machu Picchu in Peru, it was believed that people only lived nomadically or in tiny settlements in the Amazon.”
Maybe if “we” were completely out of touch with decades of research
Are They sure it’s not one of those FIFA stadiums that have been overgrown and abandoned?
This is the kinda shit I wanna see on my news page. Not a whole shit post about how some character on stranger things won’t return. Now this… this shit is cool
Percy Fawcett MFers
#RISE UP
“Stuff just keeps getting older.”
> It reveals a large, complex society that appears to be even bigger than the well-known Mayan societies in Mexico and Central America.
Wow
And it can be yours tomorrow with overnight shipping.
Turns out the crackpot adventurer from the Lost City of Z was right, in the end. Too bad he disappeared so long ago.
Mormons are gonna be stoked and add it to their Mormon Book of Mormon touristy bs.
I hope they explore this a lot more, and make a sweet documentary about it.
This is one of the most interesting findings I’ve ever come across in my lifetime.
Are there any good books to read about this general region/part of history? Is 1491 good?
Look fellow-exLDS, it’s Zarahemla – let us hie to the temple once more
> “This is older than any other site we know in the Amazon. We have a Eurocentric view of civilisation, but this shows we have to change our idea about what is culture and civilisation,” says Prof Stephen Rostain, director of investigation at the National Centre for Scientific Research in France, who led the research.
> “It changes the way we see Amazonian cultures. Most people picture small groups, probably naked, living in huts and clearing land – this shows ancient people lived in complicated urban societies,” says co-author Antoine Dorison.
What in the fuck is this person on about? We’ve known about mega structures in the Amazon for *decades* now. There are entire books written on societies of South America.
There are current, massive, actively lived in cities that we know existed in the 13th century.
How is this person being quoted as an expert when they clearly don’t know anything about the anthropological study of South America? This person is quoting beliefs held by Europeans in the freaking *1920s.*
This Antoine Dorison is just telling on themselves by saying that they think that South Americans were just “naked and living in huts” for the last several centuries.
Can’t wait for ancient aliens to tell me that it was created by aliens.
Josh gates on the scene?!?!
free shipping?
Shit !….what does Amazon not sell ?
-he was told not to go there bc his peers believed no ancient civilization lived in the amazon
Bruh we have uncontacted tribes STILL living in the amazon. It’s one of the best places to live in terms of resources. You can collect water with leaves, have access to tons of different fruit, herbs, and wild veggies, plus you have tons of animals that live there for you to hunt and eat. And we already have proof of other smaller cities and settlements in the amazon from later civilizations. Those didn’t come out of nowhere. It’s very likely there were almost always people living in the amazon rainforest. There are probably a number of other lost cities beneath the foliage and the roots. Though locals and indigenous people already know of some sites that archeologists don’t know about. That’s how Machu Picchu was “discovered” as well.
Over 2,500 years old is what they’re saying. Hmmm. Interesting
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*Graham Hancock noises intensify*
It’s just one of Bezos’ vacation cities.
Col. Percy Fawcett (Famed explorer in movie/book “Lost City of Z”) was truly ahead of his time. Laughed at and ridiculed for his beliefs. And yet here we are.
I bet these people also traveled to Oak Island to hide their treasures with the knight templars and sir william phips.
This confirms older Spanish accounts of cities along the Amazon that were written off as myths and exaggerations. In fact the Amazon is full of such sites. Lidar exploration has been a boon.
>”This is older than any other site we know in the Amazon. We have a Eurocentric view of civilisation, but this shows we have to change our idea about what is culture and civilisation,” says Prof Stephen Rostain, director of investigation at the National Centre for Scientific Research in France, who led the research.
>”It changes the way we see Amazonian cultures. Most people picture small groups, probably naked, living in huts and clearing land – this shows ancient people lived in complicated urban societies,” says co-author Antoine Dorison.
Hmm. So “our” (everyone? the authors of the paper? that guy and his pet mouse?) Eurocentric view of civilization, as meaning people who wear clothes and live in complicated urban environments, is being challenged by… the discovery that Amazonians once wore clothes and lived in complicated urban environments.
I would have thought a challenge to the “Eurocentric view” would be to include the naked nomads in the category of “civilization”.
I feel a disturbance in the force
Makes me want to re-watch “Allen Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold”…
“While we knew about cities in the highlands of South America, like Machu Picchu in Peru, it was believed that people only lived nomadically or in tiny settlements in the Amazon.”
Maybe if “we” were completely out of touch with decades of research
Are They sure it’s not one of those FIFA stadiums that have been overgrown and abandoned?
This is the kinda shit I wanna see on my news page. Not a whole shit post about how some character on stranger things won’t return. Now this… this shit is cool
Percy Fawcett MFers
#RISE UP
“Stuff just keeps getting older.”
> It reveals a large, complex society that appears to be even bigger than the well-known Mayan societies in Mexico and Central America.
Wow
And it can be yours tomorrow with overnight shipping.
Turns out the crackpot adventurer from the Lost City of Z was right, in the end. Too bad he disappeared so long ago.
Mormons are gonna be stoked and add it to their Mormon Book of Mormon touristy bs.
I hope they explore this a lot more, and make a sweet documentary about it.
This is one of the most interesting findings I’ve ever come across in my lifetime.
Are there any good books to read about this general region/part of history? Is 1491 good?
Look fellow-exLDS, it’s Zarahemla – let us hie to the temple once more
> “This is older than any other site we know in the Amazon. We have a Eurocentric view of civilisation, but this shows we have to change our idea about what is culture and civilisation,” says Prof Stephen Rostain, director of investigation at the National Centre for Scientific Research in France, who led the research.
> “It changes the way we see Amazonian cultures. Most people picture small groups, probably naked, living in huts and clearing land – this shows ancient people lived in complicated urban societies,” says co-author Antoine Dorison.
What in the fuck is this person on about? We’ve known about mega structures in the Amazon for *decades* now. There are entire books written on societies of South America.
There are current, massive, actively lived in cities that we know existed in the 13th century.
How is this person being quoted as an expert when they clearly don’t know anything about the anthropological study of South America? This person is quoting beliefs held by Europeans in the freaking *1920s.*
This Antoine Dorison is just telling on themselves by saying that they think that South Americans were just “naked and living in huts” for the last several centuries.
Can’t wait for ancient aliens to tell me that it was created by aliens.
Josh gates on the scene?!?!
free shipping?
Shit !….what does Amazon not sell ?
-he was told not to go there bc his peers believed no ancient civilization lived in the amazon
Bruh we have uncontacted tribes STILL living in the amazon. It’s one of the best places to live in terms of resources. You can collect water with leaves, have access to tons of different fruit, herbs, and wild veggies, plus you have tons of animals that live there for you to hunt and eat. And we already have proof of other smaller cities and settlements in the amazon from later civilizations. Those didn’t come out of nowhere. It’s very likely there were almost always people living in the amazon rainforest. There are probably a number of other lost cities beneath the foliage and the roots. Though locals and indigenous people already know of some sites that archeologists don’t know about. That’s how Machu Picchu was “discovered” as well.
Over 2,500 years old is what they’re saying. Hmmm. Interesting